CAV2.0 BETA Planned to be Discontinued by 20th Nov, 2008

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[JamesFrance]

OK, but thats a real shame. I certinaly wont be recommending any future Comodo products within our University or the others we have operations in throughout Wales.

I have to say you are being unreasonable, as a forum member you must know that CAV2 ceased development long ago, as Comodo made no secret of it not being good enough.

There has to be some limit to what people can expect for no payment surely?

If you badmouth Comodo around your Welsh universities (assuming you have any influence) you will be doing others there a serious disservice and that would be a shame IMHO.

[LeoniAquila]

I have to agree with James.

Whatever one thinks of discontinued support for an old OS, I don't think it's fair to never again recommend any future Comodo products.

LA

[cswinney]

I am part of a small team that look after a large amount of PC based equipment throughout many welsh educational establishments, HE, FE and secondary. The vast majority of these are Windows 2000 machines. Whilst I accept that development moves on, I feel that to drop total support for this OS that will be officially supported by MS until well into 2010 (and then possibly extended again and certainly as self help) giving no prior indication and approximately 3 weeks notice, is in itself unreasonable.

We take security of our systems seriously and it is my job to test and recommend solutions. I was looking at Comodo's Centrally managed solution as a paid for option but feel now that this is no longer viable (at the moment there is no AV support, but I was lead to believe that this would be included and supported for Win 2000). It is not my intention to "bad mouth" Comodo, I simply cannot recommend their products as they do not appear to listen to their customers. It's a carrot and donkey situation. If there is no carrot, the donkey will not follow.

Its tough but that life and that just the way it is. We have to move on.

[LeoniAquila]

OK, I understand and respect your viewpoint.

LA

[John Buchanan]

Last I read (correct me if I am wrong here), Microsoft had no plans to re-extend support for this aging platform.  Support is currently limited, and will cease, whether or not you or any other user choose not to upgrade.

[cswinney]

Last time we spoke with Microsoft, they stated that they are in the extended support phase of Windows 2000. This will run until July 2010. This means that Windows 2000 will receive full security updates until that date, and support through the normal MS channels will continue. From then self help support will be available. Although there are no current plan to extend support MS have a habit of changing there mind at the last minute (as with XPs demise!) if customer demand is present.

[lynx1021]

I already have A FIREWALL. I only need an antivirus. Using  CAV2.0 BETA  NOW!

[Melih]

Last time we spoke with Microsoft, they stated that they are in the extended support phase of Windows 2000. This will run until July 2010. This means that Windows 2000 will receive full security updates until that date, and support through the normal MS channels will continue. From then self help support will be available. Although there are no current plan to extend support MS have a habit of changing there mind at the last minute (as with XPs demise!) if customer demand is present.

I would recommend our new and upcoming Comodo Time Machine for your educational computers. Its god sent for education!

Sorry about stopping the support for the beta, in theory, it should not have been used in production environments anyway, but we had many people who did use it in production. All the development for the new AV happened in 2008 and we couldn't simply justify supporting w2k knowing that its about to be discontinued to be supported.

Again, sorry for to inconvinience and I love Wales! (Just ask around, there are many grateful Seagles in Llandudno that I fed bread to )

Melih

[3xist]

Now that CAV 2.0 beta has been discontinued, And definition updates have stopped for it. I will now close this thread. Sorry for the inconvenience for those using W2K and CAV 2.0 Beta.

Josh

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