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Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets
From: Francesco Peeters <francesco_at_nospam>Date: Fri Apr 16 2010 - 21:37:17 GMT
To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
On 4/16/10 23:18 , Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote:
>
>>> The owner of the box. They may not be qualified to manage the machine,
>>> but computers don't plug themselves into the network-- every machine
>>> belongs to someone who pays for electrical power and network
>>> connectivity.
>>>
>> What if your PS3 stops working because the maker thinks it is a too-old
>> model to still go?
>>
> A fine question. Let's suppose a certain old PS3 model has a serious manufacturing defect, such that it can overheat and catch fire.
>
> Let's suppose Sony starts releasing firmware updates on new games, or via network updates, etc, which check for the presence of the defect and produce a big red warning on the screen saying, "This machine has a problem and it needs a human to check and fix it." They don't stop you from playing your game, but they have been trying hard to catch your attention.
>
> Six months later, Sony releases a new game which happens to really beat on the PS3 and is pretty likely (or even dead-certain) to cause machines which have this problem to catch fire. Should Sony release firmware which causes the PS3 to refuse to run this game?
>
>
>>>> If nobody had to turn off freshclam, why clamscan had to stop working?
>>>>
>>> Sufficiently old versions of ClamAV don't work with all of the current
>>> signatures, and bugs in these old versions prevent the ClamAV team from
>>> writing more complex signatures that they would like to use.
>>>
>> Just prevent old versions from upgrading. It is not that difficult.
>>
> I agree with you entirely. You're welcome to roll back to the 2010-4-14 virus signatures before the less-than-0.95 kill switch was turned on, and your outdated ClamAV will continue to run just fine with these old signatures.
>
> Regards,
>
Just one remark: Anyone Ran Linux on their PlayStation lately?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Removal_of_.22Other_OS.22_support_with_firmware_v3.21
--FP
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