On 10/03/2021 17:00, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote:
I wonder how many "ordinary" users of ClamAV are giving up on using it after 
getting permanent 403s. I would imagine there are lots of people who don't pursue the 
issue. They may even tell others that ClamAV is unreliable (which would tarnish its 
reputation).

Indeed. There does seem to be a view from some people here that anyone using ClamAV should be regularly updating, monitoring this list, monitoring blogs, etc. Ordinary people just don't do that.

I expect many will just be thinking that the database servers are broken, and are waiting for them to recover on their own (as they've done in the past) and they'll eventually go elsewhere.

The change should really be published everywhere possible - at least in big letters on the ClamAV home page, and possibly including going to popular computer press, etc.

A blog article (which is actually very hard to find) or announcement list post (which is even harder to find) which vaguely says that databases won't be tested on older versions isn't quite the same as a home page announcement that old versions & wget just won't work any more!

Of course, people have limited rights to complain - it's not like we're paying for it.

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