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ClamAV 0.94.x end of life - with prejudiceClamAV 0.94.x end of life - with prejudicePosted Oct 6, 2009 17:00 UTC (Tue) by moxfyre (guest, #13847)In reply to: ClamAV 0.94.x end of life - with prejudice by yokem_55 Parent article: ClamAV 0.94.x end of life - with prejudice Does anyone here have some raised eyebrows over the fact that a piece of Free Software is providing a data file update which contains some magic bits that disables the use of said software? I'm not questioning the intentions of the ClamAV folks, but isn't this over the top? Well, as you said: it is free software/open source. There's nothing that would prevent you from patching the old engine to work with the new virus definition update files... even though that would be pretty pointless :-p It seems the goal of the ClamAV devs is to counteract apathy on the part of users who haven't bothered to upgrade to the newer, better engine. Evidently, they've decided that having old versions still in use is sufficiently harmful to security that they should do everything possible to encourage/force an upgrade. But again, if there are some disgruntled die-hard 0.94.x users, they can patch or fork. However, as I said above, there's no good reason to!
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ClamAV 0.94.x end of life - with prejudice Posted Oct 7, 2009 19:11 UTC (Wed) by orev (subscriber, #50902) [Link]
It's not "apathy". Many of the enterprise distros are still on the old version, and installing your own, updated version completely invalidates the point of using an enterprise distro.
ClamAV 0.94.x end of life - with prejudice Posted Oct 20, 2009 10:55 UTC (Tue) by robbe (subscriber, #16131) [Link]
Make that "distro apathy", then.
ClamAV 0.94.x end of life - with prejudice Posted Jul 30, 2010 17:27 UTC (Fri) by moxfyre (guest, #13847) [Link]
Agreed. If a distro doesn't consider a newer, better anti-virus system to be a "security fix" that should be enabled for a stable distribution then...
It seems to me that their commitment to "stability" is part of the security problem, and not a solution to it.
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