[87116] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Clueless anti-virus products/vendors (was Re: Sober)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Sun Dec 4 14:13:48 2005
In-Reply-To: <BBDDHCDDEAXCCI@burger.akwireless.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtzch@corp.earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 14:13:17 -0500
To: W.D.McKinney <dee@akwireless.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Dec 4, 2005, at 2:06 PM, W.D.McKinney wrote:
>>
>>>> Can people building virus scanning devices PLEASE GET A %^&*^ CLUE?
>>>> This means you, Barricuda Networks, more than anyone else, but we
>>>> also see this annoyance from Symantec devices, and from some AOL
>>>> systems as well.
>>>
>>> It's a simple switch in the GUI of Barracuda Networks to turn of
>>> this
>>> annoyance. More operator error than Barracuda's fault, IMHO.
>>
>> If it is on by default, it is a bug, and not operator error.
>>
>> (Virus "warnings" to forged addresses are UBE, plain and simple.)
>>
>
> Since when? I disagree.
While we can argue whether it is UBE, it is a pretty dumb move I
think we can all agree.. ;-)
