[clamav-users] No good deed goes unpunished, or, why CVD files don't work

[Paul Kosinski]

Only DNS TXT queries are done 3-5 times per hour. Freshclam itself is
only run whenever that reports that there is something new available,
as determined by the DNS TXT result showing a higher version number
than the *local* CLD file shows. In practice, this means that freshclam
is only run a few times per day. (Recently, updates only seem to occur
at about 03:xx, 11:xx and 19:xx GMT, i.e., three times per day.)


On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 21:14:58 -0800
Al Varnell <alvarnell at mac.com> wrote:

> Note these restrictions:
> 
> > How many times per hour shall I run freshclam?
> > You can check for database update as often as 4 times per hour
> > provided that you have the following options in freshclam.conf:
> > 
> > DNSDatabaseInfo current.cvd.clamav.net
> > 
> > DatabaseMirror db.XY.clamav.net
> > 
> > DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net
> > 
> > Replace XY with your country code. If you don’t have that option,
> > then you must stick with 1 check per hour.
> 
> -Al-
> 
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Paul Kosinski wrote:
> > They all do DNS TXT queries 3-5 times per hour...
>