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

[Dennis Peterson]

On 3/21/16 2:21 PM, Andy Keller 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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Has it completed fetching the new main and daily files or is it retrying?

dp