[clamav-users] Warning in ClamAV update process

[Al Varnell]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Tommy Berglund wrote:
> 
> I always get these warnings and it is always ip 192.121.13.5
> Any way to avoid these warnings?

That mirror appear to be located in Sweden. Depending on where in the world you are located, you _might_ see improvement by changing the following in freshclam.conf:

# Country of origin of malware/detection statistics (for statistical
# purposes only). The statistics collector at ClamAV.net will look up
# your IP address to determine the geographical origin of the malware
# reported by your installation. If this installation is mainly used to
# scan data which comes from a different location, please enable this
# option and enter a two-letter code (see http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/)
# of the country of origin.
# Default: disabled
#DetectionStatsCountry country-code
DetectionStatsCountry XX

Freshclam usually does a pretty good job of figuring out where you are based on your IP address and match you to closest mirrors, but that doesn’t always work.  There are also occasions when a mirror will block IP addresses outside of nation boundaries.  They aren’t supposed to, but I know it has happened.

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Question for ClamAV® team.  Have you done away with the Mirror Status page? (was http://www.clamav.net/mirrors.html)  I used it quite often to troubleshoot issues such as this one.


-Al-
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Al Varnell
Mountain View, CA