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ClamAV Forced Upgrade Breaks Email Servers

Posted by kdawson on from the on-the-half-shell dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A couple of weeks ago Sourcefire announced end-of-life for version 0.94 of its free ClamAV antivirus package (and in fact has been talking about it for six months). The method that Sourcefire chose to retire 0.94 was to shut down the server that provided its service. Those who had failed to upgrade are scrambling now. Many systems have no choice but to disable virus checking in order to continue to process email. I am very glad I saw the announcement last week!"

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  1. Tisk, tisk... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Should have switched to Norton. They would have had weeks of impossible-to-ignore yellow and black pop-ups demanding their credit card number as ample warning...

    Those freetards just don't understand the valuable features provided by quality proprietary software.

  2. Re:FUCK JEWS by jDeepbeep · · Score: 5, Funny

    FUCK JEWS

    When they are exceedingly attractive, female, not married, and expressing interest, I do.

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  3. Natalie and grits by jDeepbeep · · Score: 4, Funny

    Be careful, though. Natalie Portman might pour hot grits on you.

    Where do I sign up sir?

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  4. Re:So you had 6 months to upgrade by Culture20 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm effected by endless clueless customers whining that their email server broke.

    While such an occurrence would prompt me into action, I doubt it would prompt me into existence. ;)