On Apr 16, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Eric Rostetter wrote: > Quoting Gary MacKay <g...@edisoninfo.com>: > >> OK, who's the mental midget that decided to just up and kill all >> installations of clamav ??? > > No one. Only very old installs, not all installs. > So who made who god to decide which servers get shutdown?
>> OK, so the version is not updated and it is probably not catching all the >> viri that is should. SO WHAT!!!! > > So why run it at all? And why stop the rest of us from being able to > catch all the viri we should be able to, and want to? > Nobody is stopping you from doing whatever you want to YOUR servers. >> That's my responsibility/fault. > > Exactly. And you are now paying the price... And we are no longer > having to pay the price for your faults. > The price I would pay is getting an infected server and having to clean up the mess. None of mine are infected. Although I will say this incident has probably shut down more servers than ANY VIRUS OUT THERE YET!!! >> But don't go shutting everything down and killing corporate email all >> together!!!!!! Retards... > > Kettle, meet pot... > >> NOBODY, BUT NOBODY, HAS THE RIGHT TO SHUT DOWN SOMEONE ELSES SERVERS!!! > > They did not in any way shut down your server. No shutdown or reboot > command was issued. They didn't turn off your power. Your server is > up and running just fine, or if not, it isn't clamav's fault. > > They shut down your clamd daemon... Not your server. > Symantics. By shutting down clamd daemon the mail server has been rendered dead. Killed by the very program what was supposed to prevent this. >> Off to find a replacement....... > > Enjoy! > I am not disputing that I should have kept the servers up to date. Again, my problem not anyone else's. Microsoft makes lousy enough software, but what a mess if they decided to issue a shutdown command on all the Windows NT servers in the world? This was not an accidental failure of hardware or software or anything else. It was a willful choice to purposefully send out a kill command. That is what I am angered about. > -- > Eric Rostetter > The Department of Physics > The University of Texas at Austin > > Go Longhorns! > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
