> OK, how's this then. 9.5.3 (IIRC) came out about the time the notice

OK, how's this then. If you used freshclam, everytime you updated the 
signatures you got a message about ClamAV being outdated. The gap between 0.94 
and now it quite big. The people who *chose* to ignore it are to blame. If 
you're stupid enough *not* to upgrade your virusscanner while it's for free 
(that's probably why you chose ClamAV in the first place), it's your fault. If 
you're running a mailserver and got bitten because you don't know how to 
upgrade, then IMO you shouldn't be running a mailserver because of lack of 
knowledge about the system. I can't help that, you can't help that, SourceFire 
can't help that. They can help themselves however by learning how to do things 
and that won't be helped by keeping a hand over their heads, preventing from 
'bad things to happen'.. (IMO, running an outdated virusscanner *is* a Bad 
Thing(tm).) Or, if people do *not* (want to) learn about their system, they 
should buy an appliance with support contract that takes care of this.

Disclaimer: by "you" and "your" I don't mean specifically *you*.

Everytime a posting pops up asking why their ClamAV doesn't work anymore, the 
thread gets hijacked by rants like these. This is not helping the OP want way 
OT. If you'd just stay in the already polluted threads and post your rants 
there, the list would be cleaner.


-- Rob

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