On Apr 16, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: >> The sysadmins could have done this by turning off freshclam...... and >> saved themselves from having to deal with the upgrade..... > > Who is the sysadmin of an unmanaged box?
The owner of the box. They may not be qualified to manage the machine, but computers don't plug themselves into the network-- every machine belongs to someone who pays for electrical power and network connectivity. > If nobody had to turn off freshclam, why clamscan had to stop working? Sufficiently old versions of ClamAV don't work with all of the current signatures, and bugs in these old versions prevent the ClamAV team from writing more complex signatures that they would like to use. ClamAV isn't different from other anti-virus software or security mechanisms in general. If the software is too old, it doesn't provide useful protection from current malware. If you've ever administered an older Windows box at some client site, it's not uncommon to find a 3-year out-of-date antivirus install that either has been logging complaints for ages, or has been disabled completely because the local user got tired of being nagged about the outdated version. It's also not uncommon to find such machines infected six ways from Sunday. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
