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Trend Micro Quarantines Letter P

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the unintended-behaviors dept.

kkenedy writes "I thought this was the funniest thing I have read in a long time: CRN reports that a bug in an update to one of Trend Micro's security products inadvertently blocks all incoming e-mail containing the letter P." Makes me glad I don't use it, else I wouldn't get any mail, purely on the basis of my surname.

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  1. Wachovia/1st Union blocks email with "hi" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wachovia has been blocking ALL email with "hi" in the title for almost 2 years now with no notice of what the problem is, just "rejected due to policy". But they do NOT view it as a problem even though they have around 25,000-30,000 employees. If only 1% are entitled "hi" and each gets maybe 10 emails a day, that is 2500-3000 emails blocked per day with no notice.

    Nice service from a BANK. Their tech department is pretty stupid.

  2. As someone who actually _uses_ eManager... by nbvb · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, the product has the potential for big-brother type thing (filtering mail, etc...) but we don't use it for any of that.

    #1) We use it along with Viruswall to block incoming viruses (It's a proxy that sits in front of Sendmail for us....) Works really well; we haven't had a virus outbreak in 2+ years. (Lousy Outlook!)

    #2) We use it to filter out Spam. I don't get _any_ Spam at my work address. At all. Very impressive if you ask me!

    Viruswall & eManager are pretty ugly pieces of code, but they do the job. We don't get viruses and don't get Spam, and that's why we use it. :)

    Having said that, this stop-the-P thing is a mess. I just checked our rulefiles, and we jumped from rulefile 914 to 920..... glad to see that ;)

    --DM