[clamav-users] Freshclam failing to get update

[Joel Esler (jesler)]

Everyone should upgrade to current.  So many CVEs have been patched in the past couple of major versions.  We’ve shut off older versions as it’s costing a fortune for us to keep feeding older versions of ClamAV, which download the daily.cvd in its entirety, once a second.  (So many people do this!  Stop!)

So, to show you how bad the problem is, last month, we transferred 9PB of traffic from our infrastructure just in updates.  We’ve gotta cut that down.  Besides, this is security software, you should upgrade it.

There are reasons we can’t cut off .100 and .101 yet, but as soon as we can, we’ll be shutting those off as well.  So everyone, please upgrade.

> On Feb 11, 2021, at 8:58 AM, Simon Banton via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> 
> Ah, OK, thanks.
> 
> S.
> 
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 13:49, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net <mailto:clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 41;344;0c
> 
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Simon Banton via clamav-users wrote:
> 
> > Is there anything about ClamAV v0.97.3 that would mean it's suddenly unable
> > to fetch the daily updates via freshclam? I know it's an old version, but
> > this is on a very old box running Centos 4 so upgrading isn't practical at
> > the moment (for, you know, *reasons*).
> 
> You need to upgrade.
> 
> All versions of ClamAV before 0.100 are now past End Of Life and obsolete.
> 
> You should also at least subscribe to the 'clamav-announce' mailing list,
> where this was announced (yesterday).
> 
> -- 
> 
> 73,
> Ged.
> 
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