In message <4bce64a1.8040...@cwa.co.nz> Steve Wray <steve.w...@cwa.co.nz> was claimed to have wrote:
>The thing is that there are a few little issues here that, as points of law >are not clear yet. In what follows words like 'vendor' may not be used >entirely legally precisely, IANAL, but I am certain that with a bit of >squinting my meaning will be clear. > >I know that in certain jurisdictions, reaching out to someone elses >computer (ie not your property) and disabling functionality on it could >constitute a criminal act. ClamAV developers didn't reach out to anyone. Rather, most minimally competent ClamAV administrators configure their systems to connect to ClamAV's servers on a regular basis and download updated definition files. More importantly, administrators configured their systems to stop flowing mail in the event of a ClamAV failure. This is a configuration choice, it's fairly trivial to configure mail to flow through unscanned if you value a false sense of security over the potential of an outage. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
