TrendMicro is suing BarracudaNetworks over the incredibly novel idea of scanning email for viruses (via the excellent open-source ClamAV ) on an SMTP server. To me, this is akin to suing someone for locking their doors at night. I mean, who could’ve ever thunk to scan email before it hits mailboxes? Unpossible.

Sigh. Add me to the list of sysadmins that think TrendMicro sucks and doesn’t deserve your money.

Sad, really. The ordb database helped us reject a whole slew of spam right off the top. Kudos for the great work over the years, and many happy returns.

Oh well – I guess it’s better to shut the whole thing down if the maintenance was too difficult to keep on top of.

I really should write an entry about the entirely open-source spam filtering system we use at End Point. I call it the “holy grail,” as it does pretty much everything right. No backscatter, no messages rejected without notification and extremely high-performance.