[clamav-users] Latest report on update "delays"

[Gary R. Schmidt]

On 23/10/2018 16:17, Paul Kosinski wrote:
> Two observations: First, a smoothly working freshclam mechanism
> shouldn't require workarounds.
Well, yes, but it works smoothly for a very large number of people, 
myself included.

> And I suspect many ClamAV users
> wouldn't be able to deal with workarounds like this.
This I disagree with - if they are bright enough to go looking for 
something like ClamAV then they'd be able to handle the trivial task of 
adding a line to a crontab file.

> Second, any time freshclam fails due to an out-of-sync problem, there
> has been a useless load on the mirrors (although I suppose using cdiffs
> would significantly reduce the useless data transfer). Plus there is
> useless load on the client machine and its LAN.
There is a load only on the mirrors you are accessing, the rest of them 
keep doing their job.

Have you absolutely ruled out the possibility of someone having set up a 
transparent proxy on your border router(s)?

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)