Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch (and a feature suggestion)

2010-04-19 Thread Kamens, Jonathan
On some rpm linux, eg RH5 for example, there is yum. You can provide them a private yum server and this will done. On FreeBSD, there is packages, same add a correct line into /etc/make.conf and portupgrade -pP will fix this for you. How about you do us all a favor and cut out the patronizing?

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch (and a feature suggestion)

2010-04-18 Thread Xavier Beaudouin
Hi there, Le 8 avr. 2010 à 03:11, David F. Skoll a écrit : > Jonathan Kamens wrote: > >> My company had hundreds of appliances in the field running versions of >> ClamAV affected by this change. When we saw the announcement, we >> immediately started working on figuring out how we were going to

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-08 Thread Török Edwin
On 04/08/2010 05:25 PM, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 T?r?k Edwin wrote: > >> The initial announcement about this was 6 month ago. > > It seems I missed that one. Can you point me to a link? Initial announcement: http://lists.clamav.net/lurker/message/20091006.143601.d

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-08 Thread tBB
G.W. Haywood wrote: >> The initial announcement about this was 6 month ago. > > It seems I missed that one. Can you point me to a link? http://www.clamav.net/lang/de/2009/10/05/eol-clamav-094/ http://lists.clamav.net/lurker/message/20091006.143601.d27bbd20.en.html http://lurker.clamav.net/mes

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-08 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 T?r?k Edwin wrote: > The initial announcement about this was 6 month ago. It seems I missed that one. Can you point me to a link? -- 73, Ged. ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-08 Thread Ladar Levison
On 4/7/2010 4:05 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: o The server could look at the Freshclam user-agent version number and not serve up the new database if it's too old. Wouldn't this provide a solution? I checked, and freshclam does provide the version number in the User-Agent string. I used the t

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch (and a feature suggestion)

2010-04-08 Thread Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
David F. Skoll wrote: Jonathan Kamens wrote: My company had hundreds of appliances in the field running versions of ClamAV affected by this change. When we saw the announcement, we immediately started working on figuring out how we were going to get them updated by April 15, and we succeeded in

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-08 Thread Per Jessen
Kamens, Jonathan wrote: > The initial announcement about this was 6 month ago. > If a 6 month window to upgrade is not enough, what would be? > > I'd say that obsoleting and remotely disabling mission-critical > software that is less than two years old is unreasonable whether the > software

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch (and a feature suggestion)

2010-04-07 Thread David F. Skoll
Jonathan Kamens wrote: > My company had hundreds of appliances in the field running versions of > ClamAV affected by this change. When we saw the announcement, we > immediately started working on figuring out how we were going to get > them updated by April 15, and we succeeded in doing so. We ha

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread Jonathan Kamens
On 04/07/2010 08:33 PM, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote: ask ms about windows xp :) There is no kill switch in Windows XP. Microsoft is ending support for it, but existing installations of Windows XP will continue to work as they always have for the indefinite future. The parallel in the anti-viru

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread Gianluigi Tiesi
On 07/04/2010 23.26, David F. Skoll wrote: > Török Edwin wrote: > >> How about 0.95? That version has been out for a while, and its not >> affected by this bug. > > Well, you don't seem to have any reservations about a kill-switch for > <0.95, so I don't see why you're suddenly so concerned about

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread Eugene Crosser
Mark Pizzolato - ClamAV-devel wrote: >> "Will refuse to load" means that daily.cvd will be considered a >> malformed database by ClamAV <= 0.94.2. > > That would be the case if it was actually downloaded. > Will the freshclam <= 0.94.2 actually download the updated signatures? > > I think it w

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread Mark Pizzolato - ClamAV-devel
On 04/07/2010 1:10 PM, Török Edwin wrote: > On 04/07/2010 10:31 PM, Marc Balmer wrote: > > Am 07.04.10 21:29, schrieb Török Edwin: > >> On 04/07/2010 09:21 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I have a question about the CVD that will "contain a special signature > >>> which disables all

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread David F. Skoll
Török Edwin wrote: > How about 0.95? That version has been out for a while, and its not > affected by this bug. Well, you don't seem to have any reservations about a kill-switch for <0.95, so I don't see why you're suddenly so concerned about 0.95. After all, everyone should be on the leading-edg

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Wed Apr 07 2010 22:47:27 GMT+0200 (CET) David F. Skoll wrote: > OK. That's bad. Really bad. It's an enormous problem for us. > > We have some customers (I don't know exactly how many) who are > running ClamAV <= 0.94.2. When this hits the ether, their mail > servers will tempfail all mail

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread Kamens, Jonathan
David, While I agree, to some extent, with your concerns, I cannot help but wonder why you waited until now to raise this issue. The fact that ClamAV <=0.94 would stop working on April 15 was first announced six months ago, on October 6, 2009. Surely this question would have been better asked

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread Török Edwin
On 04/08/2010 12:05 AM, David F. Skoll wrote: > Török Edwin wrote: > >> Would you prefer freshclam/ClamAV crash/corrupt memory when loading the >> new databases with >980 byte lines? > > No. I can think of ways around this to make things degrade > gracefully: > > o The server You mean to do th

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread Kamens, Jonathan
>>>Would you prefer freshclam/ClamAV crash/corrupt memory when loading the new databases with >980 byte lines? If it was impossible to support new functionality with a database compatible with ClamAV <=0.94, then the database should have forked -- two sets of databases generated by the automated

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread David F. Skoll
Török Edwin wrote: > Would you prefer freshclam/ClamAV crash/corrupt memory when loading the > new databases with >980 byte lines? No. I can think of ways around this to make things degrade gracefully: o The server could look at the Freshclam user-agent version number and not serve up the new d

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread Török Edwin
On 04/07/2010 11:47 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: > (I apologize for breaking threading; I read clamav-devel in digest > mode) > > Török Edwin wrote: > >> "Will refuse to load" means that daily.cvd will be considered a >> malformed database by ClamAV <= 0.94.2. > >> If you have a malformed database

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread David F. Skoll
(I apologize for breaking threading; I read clamav-devel in digest mode) Török Edwin wrote: > "Will refuse to load" means that daily.cvd will be considered a > malformed database by ClamAV <= 0.94.2. > If you have a malformed database you get an error message, and > clamd/clamscan will exit with

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread Török Edwin
On 04/07/2010 10:31 PM, Marc Balmer wrote: > Am 07.04.10 21:29, schrieb Török Edwin: >> On 04/07/2010 09:21 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a question about the CVD that will "contain a special signature >>> which disables all clamd installations older than 0.95." What exactly >>>

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 07.04.10 21:29, schrieb Török Edwin: > On 04/07/2010 09:21 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a question about the CVD that will "contain a special signature >> which disables all clamd installations older than 0.95." What exactly >> will this do? >> >> Will old versions always repor

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread Török Edwin
On 04/07/2010 09:21 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about the CVD that will "contain a special signature > which disables all clamd installations older than 0.95." What exactly > will this do? > > Will old versions always report "No virus"? > > Or will they always report "

[Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-07 Thread David F. Skoll
Hi, I have a question about the CVD that will "contain a special signature which disables all clamd installations older than 0.95." What exactly will this do? Will old versions always report "No virus"? Or will they always report "Virus?" Or will they always report an error? Regards, David.