On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Gareth Hopkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Giampaolo Tomassoni < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Just for interest.. feedback on EOL... > > > > > > http://search.twitter.com/search?q=clamav > > > > Indeed, an EOL on the previous minor version is quite an hazard and may > be > > regarded as a self-destructive behavior: it could easily became an > > End-Of-(product-)Line, meaning that people will switch to something more > > "serious"... > > > > Was that the purpose? > > > > Why is there so much bitching about this ? The original announcement was > made on the 6th October last year. > http://lists.clamav.net/lurker/message/20091006.143601.d27bbd20.en.htmlalong > with multiple reminders so people > have had over 6 months to upgrade. > I use clamav, I think it is great and I recommend it to all my customers. Even though, I do not agree with fact that a vendor (open source or not) disable and break services on my endpoint. There are many other ways to do it and this is bad for the endpoint and for the vendor. Team should review this practice, no matter if they announce it earlier or not. > > Any proactive admin should be monitoring their software mailing lists so > the > excuse of "We weren't told" or "Why all of > a sudden" are null and void. > This seems to me as: "you are not a proactive admin and you will pay the price then...". There can be old installations that are running ok and admin do not want to upgrade the server at that moment or cannot do that at that moment. It is up to each one to decide when to do it. Regards. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
