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Re: Clueless anti-virus products/vendors (was Re: Sober)

  • From: Christian Kuhtz
  • Date: Sun Dec 04 14:14:26 2005 
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.. ;-)