[clamav-users] Why has clam started updating itself every 3 hours?

[Paul Kosinski]

Ours is looking for updates every 1.5 hours, just as the cron job says.
But there have been no new sigs from current.cvd.clamav.net since
Friday, which is somewhat worrisome.


On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 21:21:17 +0000
Andy Keller <andykeller at decisionlens.com> wrote:

> This is new behavior, as far as I know. We’ve not seen this sort of
> thing before. I’m noticing (via OSSEC) that our ClamAV deployments
> are updating themselves every 3 hours. This is far in excess of the
> cron we set up to run Freshclam. Any idea what could be causing this?
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