[clamav-users] Daily.cvd file

[Al Varnell]

On Sep 17, 2014, at 9:59 PM, Paul Kosinski <clamav at iment.com> wrote:
> I'm running ClamAV 0.98.4, yet when I built it the main.cvd file was
> from 17 Sep 2013 (now a year old!), and the daily.cvd files have been
> about 28 MB each. Even though I have been running a local mirror on our
> LAN for years now, it's really annoying that the daily.cvd files are so
> big.
> 
> When ClamAV was independent, every new release had an updated
> main.cvd, and the daily.cvd files were of modest size. Now the whole
> 0.98.x series has the same main.cvd, and the daily.cvds keep getting
> bigger. The immediately previous main.cvd, in the 0.97.x series, was
> shipped with 0.97.3 and was dated Oct 2011.

You are not remembering correctly. That may have been true a decade ago, but for the last half dozen years or so the main stayed the same for every new release and was only updated when it was more efficient to update it than to continue downloading large daily’s. I seem to recall that the last update was late and that there was approximately a year between updates in earlier days, but even that varied. 

You may be correct in that it’s time for another update, but since it mostly impacts the load on network servers and not you and other clients, that’s something the team will need to analyze and decide. 


-Al-
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Al Varnell
Mountain View