Quoting "Aecio F. Neto" <aecion...@gmail.com>:
This is semantics, servers/services were stopped and this is no good no
matter what.
Yes, and semantics are often important. Your argument is false, since
you didn't use the correct words to make it.
There are tons of other situations that spread out virus too and clamav team
cannot avoid them all too.
Of course not. But they don't want to morally/ethically lie to you either.
And they don't want to penalize everyone else because you don't want
to upgrade
to a more current release of their software. So they decided not to, by
inserting a signature that will stop clamd from running if it is very old.
If people followed their advice, and listened to their pleading to upgrade,
this would not have been needed.
Causing interruption of a service one does not manage and is not responsible
for is totally intrusive to say the less.
As the authors for the software, they are responsible for it. So they
had every right to do this. If it caused collateral damage because of
your configuration and your not keeping current, that is your problem.
I just hope all this noise contributes to such situation never to happen
again in any software I use or manage.
Maybe, but I doubt it.
If one can consider this as normal just because it was announced to happen,
I should subscribe to the kernel list immediately. Should I?
Yes, of course...
LOL
--
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin
Go Longhorns!
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