On 4/16/10 8:05 AM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote:
Was the 'stop gap' really useful? To which purpose? Did the ClamAV team
meant to stop old installations to work, in order to silence competitors?
Perhaps to teach to clamav users about the very complex nature of today
systems and services?
Unfortunately, the net result will be that the management of the small
companies running their crappy and old mailing systems will have to hardly
face the fact their mailing box doesn't work anymore because a free
component in it unreasonably stopped working. This will decrease their trust
about free software: they are going to buy a new computer running Microsoft
Exchange Server backed by something else then ClamAV...
Giampaolo
I've only been doing this for about 30 years, but I do recall that several years
ago the folks at Trend Micro did something similar. The only reason it was
discovered is because the sig file quit updating and one of the admins got
curious about why. The reason was the sig file format changed. The product
continued to run with the old sig file, though, for nearly a year before it was
discovered.
dp
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