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-virus world would be that even after Symantec
stops publishing updated virus definitions for an old version of one of
their anti-virus products, the last virus definitions published for that
version will continue to work for the indefinite future. They will
become less and less effective over time, but the product will continue
to do what it is intended to do at some level.
The parallel in ClamAV would have been if the maintainers declared that
they would no longer publish virus definition files for ClamAV 0.94 but
it would continue to work with the last virus definitions publish for it.
That is not what happened here.
That is what should have happened here.
jik
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