> 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.
Which is not our case... > 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. Which is probably the correct approach. > 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? No, they should not. Period. One runs its own life the way he/she likes. > >>> 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 on, and your outdated ClamAV will continue to run just fine with these 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. This is feasible, but know needs some kind of human intervention. Which generally means money. Which generally means, "since you're here, replace this stuff with an Exchange Server. My friend says it is wonderful and doesn't stop. Ever!". > 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? -1 for me: I'm not debating for necessity. I'm doing it for a right cause! _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
