Chris,
Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Jim Redman wrote:
Your opinions, seem to be the prevalent attitude of the vocal members of this
list - if you don't suffer, it wasn't worth it.
I would disagree, in that I don't see it as suffering.
Forgive me if I missed it, but what is your specific problem ? Perhaps we
have different definitions of suffering.
The only specific complaint I saw was the message "Your version is
outdated", and that seems to me to be a very simple English declarative
sentence, with a simple solution. You are running an old version, get a new
one.
Sorry, my point has nothing to do with my particular suffering or any
particular aspect of that - or at least only indirectly.
My observation is that of all the modern packages ClamAV fails to
install and run successfully and securely without operator intervention.
I think that this should be refined to reference Fedora packages and
perhaps not all of them.
There are a number of reasons why I consider this a bad thing (other
opinions have been expressed by others on the list).
1) It sucks my time because I immediately have to learn more than I want
to about ClamAV (and freshclam and clamav-milter and the interactions
between all these applications).
2) The installation is probably going to be sub-optimal because I don't
have enough time to spend on ClamAV to become the expert that others on
this list clearly are.
3) It encourages bad/insecure installations because people (including
me) without enough time to spend on researching the best way to install
ClamAV (and associated apps) will be ignorant of possible security hole
(or not recognize the significance of them). Bad installations could be
REALLY bad - is there any way ClamAV could be instrumental in generating
mails to the SENDER of a virus e-mail?
4) (Altruism) It limits the adoption of ClamAV which in turn increase
the number/penetration of viruses.
Of course 1) is entirely negated by the amount of time spent this
afternoon answering e-mails to the list (I really DO have other things
that I should be doing other than dealing with ClamAV).
Jim
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