On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 22:30 +0200, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > So ClamAV should obey to the rules governing the open-software community. > > One is that everybody is free to run it own copy of the software, in > whichever shape he/she likes it.
You can use ClamAV how ever you like. You just can't use the new signatures with versions older than 0.95. If you load a new signature into an older version it will crash. So if you want to use an older one, you can: 1. fix it so it doesn't crash when fed a new format signature. 2. Stop updating signatures. 3. Download the new signatures and remove the new style ones before installing them. None of those options will happen automatically. Anyone who has been content to ignore the update requirements and continues to download new signatures will be faced with a crashing clamd. The ClamAV team just chose to make it crash with a meaningful message. > This is not a matter of missing upgrades. This is a matter of proactively > breaking running systems. Exactly. They proactively broke the scanner so people would know why it broke, rather than letting it die with nothing more than an obscure malformatted hexstring error. -- Chris _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
