On October 5th, 2009, around the time of the 0.95.3 release of ClamAv, the popular Open Source anti-virus scanner, the ClamAV team announced that as of April 15th, 2010, versions prior to 0.96 would stop being able to receive pattern updates, in effect, killing the program.
What followed was a blizzard of activity on the mailing list, most oriented towards how it was unfair that another solution wasn't provided, to give people the ability to continue to update their current versions prior to 0.96. The ClamAV developers, lead by staffers at SourceFire, all believed there was plenty of time, and they should have engineered their mail systems to sustain failure of an individual component of that system, to avoid such a thing causing a problem in the first place. What do you think? Read on for more.

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