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


From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 13:57:09 +0530

On 12/3/05, Daniel Senie <dts () senie com> 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.

The worst offenders that I see -

MailMarshal
eSafe
Symantec devices, as you say

Comparatively little from Barracudas.

And some large carriers / ISPs who send bounces / virus notifications
back with (for example) notexist@[isp] as the return path instead of
MAIL FROM:<>

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