On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Sarocet wrote:
The ClamAV team didn't design the AV to stop on getting a special
signature. That signature could exist due to a bug that you decided
not to fix (by not updating/patching). It was a clever use of a bug
to disable the daemon.
You are right
On 5/3/10 12:09 AM, Mark wrote:
On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Sarocet wrote:
The ClamAV team didn't design the AV to stop on getting a special
signature. That signature could exist due to a bug that you decided
not to fix (by not updating/patching). It was a clever use of a bug
to disable the
Dennis Peterson wrote:
What they did was a bad call. They wilfully let freshclam download an
update which they knew would crash the clamd service.
This was going to happen anyway when the signatures grew to take
advantage of the new format. Older versions of clamd were going to
die sooner
Simon Hobson wrote:
Dennis Peterson wrote:
What they did was a bad call. They wilfully let freshclam download an
update which they knew would crash the clamd service.
This was going to happen anyway when the signatures grew to take
advantage of the new format. Older versions of clamd were
Simon, Mark,
Are you ever going to get over it and move on? If you are unhappy with
ClamAVs decision take your bat and ball and go to some other ball park.
Here. Here!
Enough is enough!
There are more important things to consider.
Do I take tea, or coffee?
One lump, or two?
Have a nice
Jim Preston wrote:
The rest only makes sense IF that statement is true. It's already
been pointed out that it was not inevitable, and had the team cared
then there were ways of not making old versions die.
More than one technique has been mentioned, and at least one of
them would have been
* Simon Hobson wrote:
h...@dip-systems.de wrote:
After the last signature update, clam av stopped working on our woody
installation.
Is there no more support for this Debian Release?
No, according to certain people on this list, you are a cretin, and
incompetent to even handle the off
Nathan Gibbs wrote:
Unfortunately.
If an old Clamav was installed on a system that did a vital task, but could
basically be a set it and forget it system, the setup got shafted by the
ClamAV team.
No other way to call it.
To me this is an oxymoron vital task + set and forget Set and forget
* Jim Preston wrote:
To me this is an oxymoron vital task + set and forget Set and forget
solutions are for NON-VITAL tasks by the very statement of 'forget'.
Your opinion, which you are entitled to.
I'll agree to disagree with you.
:-)
it is up to THEM to ensure changes to the project
Nathan Gibbs wrote:
Here is what I absolutely do not like about this or agree with.
The very possibility of there being a kill sig. One specially crafted sig
could kill the virus protection on every server workstation in our company.
Allowing the ClamAV Team to remotely nuke a level of our
On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Sarocet wrote:
Nathan Gibbs wrote:
Here is what I absolutely do not like about this or agree with.
The very possibility of there being a kill sig. One specially
crafted sig
could kill the virus protection on every server workstation in
our company.
* Jim Preston wrote:
On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Sarocet wrote:
The ClamAV team didn't design the AV to stop on getting a special
signature.
That signature could exist due to a bug that you decided not to fix
(by not
updating/patching).
It was a clever use of a bug to disable the daemon.
On 21/04/2010 13.54, h...@dip-systems.de wrote:
After the last signature update, clam av stopped working on our woody
installation.
Is there no more support for this Debian Release?
NO!
woody was released in 2002 (8 years ago)
they stopped releasing security updates on Jun 2006 (4 year
Daniel McDonald wrote:
I'm a little confused by this (still), is it not true that simply
turning off freshclam will allow clamav to continue working indefinitely
on the existing signature set?
No, you need to turn off freshclam *and* delete one signature, or grab an
older copy of the
Simon Hobson wrote:
Daniel McDonald wrote:
I'm a little confused by this (still), is it not true that simply
turning off freshclam will allow clamav to continue working indefinitely
on the existing signature set?
No, you need to turn off freshclam *and* delete one signature, or grab an
Robert Wyatt wrote:
You missed a few steps :
- Find out what has happened to your software that was working fine
yesterday.
- Work out what to do RIGHT NOW because your phone is ringing with
people asking where their mail is*
- Put in place a quick workaround (disable scanning) to allow the
Simon Hobson schrieb:
OK, how's this then. 9.5.3 (IIRC) came out about the time the notice
was published. It costs virtually nothing to add an extra DNS entry,
and the release could have had the default server URL changed for
Freshclam to fetch updates. it wouldn't even have been a great
Thomas Hochstein wrote:
OK, how's this then. 9.5.3 (IIRC) came out about the time the notice
was published. It costs virtually nothing to add an extra DNS entry,
and the release could have had the default server URL changed for
Freshclam to fetch updates. it wouldn't even have been a
OK, how's this then. 9.5.3 (IIRC) came out about the time the notice
OK, how's this then. If you used freshclam, everytime you updated the
signatures you got a message about ClamAV being outdated. The gap between 0.94
and now it quite big. The people who *chose* to ignore it are to blame. If
Message original
Sujet: Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?
De : Rob Sterenborg r.sterenb...@netsourcing.nl
Pour : ClamAV users ML clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
Date : Fri Apr 23 2010 09:40:20 GMT+0200
OK, how's this then. 9.5.3 (IIRC) came out about the time
Erwan David wrote:
Message of freshclam did not specify that older versions would stop.
It was the same message as for minor upgrades. This did not give the
information that something different than usual was planned.
It still means you should upgrade and the message was ignored long enough
On 21.04.10 13:54, h...@dip-systems.de wrote:
After the last signature update, clam av stopped working on our woody
installation.
woody??? another two newer debian releases (sarge and etch) are EOL now.
Is there no more support for this Debian Release?
You could compile clamav by yourself,
On Apr 23, 2010, at 6:52 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
On 21.04.10 13:54, h...@dip-systems.de wrote:
After the last signature update, clam av stopped working on our woody
installation.
woody??? another two newer debian releases (sarge and etch) are EOL
now.
Is there no more support
Rob Sterenborg wrote:
Message of freshclam did not specify that older versions would stop.
It was the same message as for minor upgrades. This did not give the
information that something different than usual was planned.
It still means you should upgrade and the message was ignored long
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:42:40 +0100
Simon li...@thehobsons.co.uk articulated:
{snip}
Applying the logic used with some venom here, every one of those
systems should have been upgraded and/or scrapped - never mind
whether they would still be capable of doing the job they are there
for.
On Apr 23, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
Rob Sterenborg wrote:
Message of freshclam did not specify that older versions would
stop.
It was the same message as for minor upgrades. This did not give the
information that something different than usual was planned.
It still means
Jerry wrote:
By the way, I still also have an old 8086 with DOS 3? (I don't remember
the version) that still works. I still use it on occasion to copy old
5.25 floppys to other media. Yes, some local government agencies have
valuable documents archived in that format. However, I would never
Simon Hobson wrote:
Jerry wrote:
By the way, I still also have an old 8086 with DOS 3? (I don't remember
the version) that still works. I still use it on occasion to copy old
5.25 floppys to other media. Yes, some local government agencies have
valuable documents archived in that format.
On 4/23/10 4:05 PM, Robert Wyatt chupacerv...@gmail.com wrote:
Simon Hobson wrote:
Jerry wrote:
By the way, I still also have an old 8086 with DOS 3? (I don't remember
the version) that still works. I still use it on occasion to copy old
5.25 floppys to other media. Yes, some local
After the last signature update, clam av stopped working on our woody
installation.
Is there no more support for this Debian Release?
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After the last signature update, clam av stopped working on our woody
installation.
Could be this...
This move is needed to push more people to upgrade to 0.95
See: http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/2009/10/05/eol-clamav-094/
Cheers,
Steve
Sanesecurity
After the last signature update, clam av stopped working on our woody
installation.
Your ClamAV is probably EOL. Please upgrade.
http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/2009/10/05/eol-clamav-094/
If your distro does not have a recent ClamAV package, you should be able to
build it from source. (I saw a
h...@dip-systems.de wrote:
After the last signature update, clam av stopped working on our woody
installation.
Is there no more support for this Debian Release?
No, according to certain people on this list, you are a cretin, and
incompetent to even handle the off switch of a computer. If
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Simon Hobson wrote:
No, according to certain people on this list, you are a cretin, and
incompetent to even handle the off switch of a computer. If you check the list
archives - particular for threads (no subject) and Those EOL tweets you'll
see that you are far from
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Simon Hobson wrote:
No, according to certain people on this list, you are a cretin, and
incompetent to even handle the off switch of a computer. If you check the
list
archives - particular for threads (no subject) and Those EOL tweets
you'll
see that you
h...@dip-systems.de wrote:
Is there no more support for this Debian Release?
Debian Woody became old-stable in Jun 2005 and support was discontinued
since June 2006.
Your version of ClamAV is also obsolete.
--aCaB
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Quoting Stephen Gran st...@lobefin.net:
Faced with an old release of software that will die if the team uses
new functionality due to a known bug, and people who will not upgrade
to the version that fixes this bug, and a reasonably urgent need to use
the new functionality, what exactly would
On 4/21/10 11:16 AM, Stephen Gran wrote:
Faced with an old release of software that will die if the team uses
new functionality due to a known bug, and people who will not upgrade
to the version that fixes this bug, and a reasonably urgent need to use
the new functionality, what exactly would
Eric Rostetter wrote:
Faced with an old release of software that will die if the team uses
new functionality due to a known bug, and people who will not upgrade
to the version that fixes this bug, and a reasonably urgent need to use
the new functionality, what exactly would you have done
h...@dip-systems.de wrote:
After the last signature update, clam av stopped working on our woody
installation.
Is there no more support for this Debian Release?
But Gianluigi Tiesi did post this a few days ago - dunno if it will
work for Woody though.
Temporary fix for debian sarge, I
Quoting Simon Hobson li...@thehobsons.co.uk:
OK, how's this then. 9.5.3 (IIRC) came out about the time the notice
was published.
And handles the signature, so it doesn't matter.
It costs virtually nothing to add an extra DNS entry,
You don't know what it costs others to setup a DNS
On Apr 21, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
h...@dip-systems.de wrote:
After the last signature update, clam av stopped working on our woody
installation.
Is there no more support for this Debian Release?
No, according to certain people on this list, you are a cretin, and
On Apr 21, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
No, according to certain people on this list, you are a cretin, and
incompetent to even handle the off switch of a computer. If you
check the list
archives - particular for threads (no subject) and Those EOL
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