This is why user base feedback is important. Regarding lack of detection, this is something I'm having a hard time agreeing with. We are producing more detection now than we ever have and faster. That's a tricky think about detection. Detection is only as good as the last thing missed.
-- Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 5, 2017, at 22:29, Noel Jones <njo...@megan.vbhcs.org> wrote: > >> On 3/5/2017 6:51 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: >> The question here is, do we strive to make a package that is installable on >> more machines, (even ones that are going EOL?), or do we strive to make a >> package that is the best for security? >> > > It's my understanding that the new features in pcre7 are mostly > about shortcuts and convenience for the programmer, not about pcre6 > inability to match particular content. > > So this isn't really about security, it's about writing the same > signatures so they work with older pcre. > > This is about not alienating that portion of your user base that for > whatever reason is unable to upgrade to a new incompatible > requirement. Once you lose such a customer, you're probably lost > them for a long time -- not just until they upgrade, but maybe forever. > > I see clamav slowly sliding towards irrelevance. Progressively less > effective, slower to respond to new threats, and now considering a > decision to reduce their user base. This makes me sad. > > My systems all meet the proposed requirements, so this doesn't > affect me directly. But I feel this reflects a deeper problem > within the project -- a lack of consideration for the end user. > > > > -- Noel Jones > _______________________________________________ > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
