Francesco Peeters wrote:
How long back do McAfee or Norton, etc. support their clients? Only
difference (aside from the fact you have to pay them for the privilege)
is they just force the upgrade on you during the standard upgrades, no
matter how inconvenient it may be... ClamAV gives you 6 months... Now
which one is more appreciative of the issues system admins may face when
upgrading software?
Well my experience over 20+ years ...
No, I've never had my commercial AV licenced software "turned off"
with no warning.
Forget the 6 months stuff, this was NO WARNING to most people. If
you'd given 6 months notice then I'd have had grounds for going to
management and making sure I had the resources to do something about
it - I'm running Debian Sarge so it's not a matter of just using the
Volatile repo.
At no point have I seen anything in the logs on my servers to say it
was going to be turned off. Like many others, the first I knew was
when I got to work this morning and the server wasn't working.
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