Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-20 Thread Steve Wray
Spiro Harvey wrote: Shame you haven't talked to to others - like havp for example - before doing this. The announcement to EOL the old releases was made at the start of october last year. If people using clam as an integral part of their software don't read announcements, what fault is that of

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-20 Thread Steve Wray
Jim Preston wrote: Steve Wray wrote: Spiro Harvey wrote: Shame you haven't talked to to others - like havp for example - before doing this. The announcement to EOL the old releases was made at the start of october last year. If people using clam as an integral part of their software

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-21 Thread Steve Wray
Spiro Harvey wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:36:17 +1200 Steve Wray wrote: 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. I sincerely hope that someone somewhere under such a

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-21 Thread Steve Wray
Spiro Harvey wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:19:31 +1200 Steve Wray wrote: Don't get distracted by issues such as "Oh those bad silly sysadmins out there who messed up, its really *their* fault not the fault of the Clamav developers!" That is just *not* helpful. The damage

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-21 Thread Steve Wray
Peter Bonivart wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: IMHO, open source projects don't have a business side. Opensource projects exist for the developers to get the software they need, faster, through colaboration with others. If anyone else finds it usefull th

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-21 Thread Steve Wray
Spiro Harvey wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:51:00 +1200 Steve Wray wrote: This would be ok if the distros maintained the servers which their distributed version of Clamav updated from. They don't. The responsibility in this case is that of those who maintain Clamav, not the distros. I

Re: [Clamav-users] Clubbing a deceased equine

2010-04-21 Thread Steve Wray
Jim Preston wrote: On Apr 21, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Robert Wyatt wrote: Eray Aslan wrote: Does anyone have access to legal opinion for a lawsuit against clamav developers or its parent company? Perhaps Germany is the better place for it. Yeah, I've got a legal opinion for you. You have no stand

Re: [Clamav-users] Clubbing a deceased equine

2010-04-21 Thread Steve Wray
Jim Preston wrote: On Apr 21, 2010, at 5:42 PM, Steve Wray wrote: Jim Preston wrote: On Apr 21, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Robert Wyatt wrote: Eray Aslan wrote: Does anyone have access to legal opinion for a lawsuit against clamav developers or its parent company? Perhaps Germany is the better

Re: [Clamav-users] Clubbing a deceased equine

2010-04-21 Thread Steve Wray
Robert Wyatt wrote: Simon Hobson wrote: The **ONLY** defence I can think of is that they assumed an implicit permission by virtue of the user running the update process to fetch signature updates. That's a very tenuous thing to infer when pushing an update that is so different in purpose to what

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing feature defaults, naming, and 0.92

2007-11-21 Thread Steve Wray
Christoph Cordes wrote: > Hello, > > so in the end it boils down to this: > > - after a new release ClamAV should mimic the behavior of the > preceding version by default unless it's a major release (.x0) or the > user enabled possible new features explicitly. furthermore the > default beha

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV Vulnerability

2007-11-21 Thread Steve Wray
Christoph Cordes wrote: > Am 20.11.2007 um 11:06 schrieb Sean Doherty: > >> Anyone know if there is any substance to this vulnerability claim? >> >> http://wabisabilabi.blogspot.com/2007/11/focus-on-clamav-remote- >> code-execution.html > > No. Ok, slight ambiguity here. On the face of it you

[Clamav-users] false positives?

2008-03-02 Thread Steve Wray
Hi there, I'm not sure this is the right mailing list for this but here goes anyway. I need to find out if I am dealing with a false positive or with a real problem. I've been running clamav over some of our webservers content for the past year or so and it has never found anything (apart from

Re: [Clamav-users] false positives?

2008-03-02 Thread Steve Wray
Noel Jones wrote: > Steve Wray wrote: >> Hi there, >> I'm not sure this is the right mailing list for this but here goes anyway. >> >> I need to find out if I am dealing with a false positive or with a real >> problem. >> >> I've been run

Re: [Clamav-users] false positives?

2008-03-02 Thread Steve Wray
Noel Jones wrote: > Steve Wray wrote: >> Noel Jones wrote: >>> Steve Wray wrote: >>>> Hi there, >>>> I'm not sure this is the right mailing list for this but here goes anyway. >>>> >>>> I need to find out if I am dealing

Re: [Clamav-users] simplest replacement for ancient amavis-perl

2008-08-13 Thread Steve Wray
Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 11.08.2008 12:05 schrieb Ian Eiloart: >> In fact, if you accept the email, then silently discard it, then you >> effectively endorsing the validity of the email. You'll be improving >> the reputation of the original sender in the eyes of the ISP. > > Worse, it can even