On Apr 16, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: >> 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. > > What if your PS3 stops working because the maker thinks it is a too-old > model to still go?
A fine question. Let's suppose a certain old PS3 model has a serious manufacturing defect, such that it can overheat and catch fire. Let's suppose Sony starts releasing firmware updates on new games, or via network updates, etc, which check for the presence of the defect and produce a big red warning on the screen saying, "This machine has a problem and it needs a human to check and fix it." They don't stop you from playing your game, but they have been trying hard to catch your attention. Six months later, Sony releases a new game which happens to really beat on the PS3 and is pretty likely (or even dead-certain) to cause machines which have this problem to catch fire. Should Sony release firmware which causes the PS3 to refuse to run this game? >>> 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. > > Just prevent old versions from upgrading. It is not that difficult. I agree with you entirely. You're welcome to roll back to the 2010-4-14 virus signatures before the less-than-0.95 kill switch was turned on, and your outdated ClamAV will continue to run just fine with these old signatures. Regards, -- -Chuck PS: I wonder just how strong the correlation is between people who are complaining about this issue and ones who also don't have adequate backups such that they actually could revert to yesterday's signature files? _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
