On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > The ClamAV team have commanded old versions of its product to stop working.
I would not describe what they did that way. Older versions of clamd were going to crash on signatures that newer versions would accept, and the devs have been prevented for at least 6 months from using that type of signature. They have posted since then for people to upgrade. When they did was publish this type of signature (has to do with length, greater than about 900bytes), where the signature itself is an error message, so when the program dumped the signature the error would be displayed. That's all, not a kill switch as such, but using a known bug to deliver a message, rather than have it just bomb out with a hex dump when they tried to use a larger signature. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- ch...@westnet.com -- (914) 948-3162 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/ _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
