* Jim Preston wrote: > To me this is an oxymoron "vital task" + "set and forget" Set and forget > solutions are for NON-VITAL tasks by the very statement of 'forget'. >
Your opinion, which you are entitled to. I'll agree to disagree with you. :-) > it is up to THEM to ensure changes to the project do not > cause them undue hardship. Agreed. Currently the project is experiencing some growing pains. However I think everyone will get through OK. > It is NOT the projects responsibility to > protect users from themselves. A fair percentage of the reason for AV existence is precisely to protect users from themselves. Even smart users occasionally do dumb things. :-) > The projects responsibility is to enhance the projects in ways THEY see fit. > And they do a great job there. Relations with the user base is where it gets a bit rough. > > PS: Thanks for not letting this thread RIP > No rest for the wicked, or sysadmins either. :-) I understand what the ClamAV Team did & why. I agree with the what and why, but never with the how.. If they didn't release a kill sig, when they released a 980 byte sig, the old installs would quit getting incremental updates. Then they'd pull full updates and knock the entire ClamAV update infrastructure over. Here is what I absolutely do not like about this or agree with. The very possibility of there being a kill sig. One specially crafted sig could kill the virus protection on every server & workstation in our company. Allowing the ClamAV Team to remotely nuke a level of our defenses is not acceptable. ( ClamAV Team, correct me if I've got this wrong. ) Obviously, we are betting the farm on solutions provided by these guys. However, the level of the farm's protection is my responsibility not theirs. With the public demo of a kill sig capability, I learn that they CAN & WILL mess with something that is my responsibility. Tactically my "kingdom" could be invaded by the ClamAV Team at any time, & they have already invaded others. That is a concept that I will never agree with. -- Sincerely, Nathan Gibbs Systems Administrator Christ Media http://www.cmpublishers.com
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