[clamav-users] ClamAV® blog: Are you still attempting to download safebrowsing.cvd?

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Thu Apr 8 12:39:56 UTC 2021


>Dne středa 7.  dubna 2021 19:41:34 CEST, Joel Esler (jesler) via
>clamav-users napsal(a):
>> > Are you still attempting to download safebrowsing.cvd?
>> >
>> >  It has come to our attention that a few of you (about 515,000 of you, to
>> >  be more accurate), are still attempting to download the safebrowsing.cvd
>> >  file from the official ClamAV mirrors.  This tells us that these
>> >  attempted downloads are an installation of FreshClam (a non-updated
>> >  FreshClam.conf or other script) that have not been updated to remove the
>> >  safebrowsing database.>

On 07.04.21 21:04, Vladislav Kurz via clamav-users wrote:
>These could be Debian users. The debian package offers to enable
>safebrowsing.cvd, and there is no indication that it is discontinued. Perhaps,
>if you talk to Debian Clamav maintainers, they could release an update that
>disables this option without asking ?

it's disabled by default, but yes, that disabling it unconditionally would
be good

The question is, if the old safebrowsing.cld has to be removed if it exists.

>Anyway I was one of those, and now disabling it everywhere...

+1
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