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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. So you had 6 months to upgrade by gparent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And you didn't, and now are going to complain when shit doesn't work? Go fuck yourself.

  2. Re:Alternative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's kind of an inflammatory article:

    Rather than simply phase this geriatric version out (it was at least one year old, revised to versions .95 and .96 since release, and announcements about the need to upgrade had been made for six months) the development team put to halt instances of V0.94 in production

    So, it's a year and two versions out of date AND they'd been saying for 6 months to move off it.. Yet still it's their fault for shutting down the server!? I'm sorry, but how much support do you want for something that's free?

  3. Re:*Correction* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow. They could have just stopped publishing updates for older versions; they do have some method of versioning, right?. Older installations could have kept chugging along using the older definitions and newer installations could get the newer definitions. But to remotely *DISABLE* older installations? I don't care if the product and service is free or not; that is pretty fucked up.