[clamav-users] New Main & Daily CVD's are incoming

[Paul Kosinski]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:05:53 +0000
"Joel Esler \(jesler\) via clamav-users" <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:

> Tomorrow, Wednesday July 14th, we are planning on publishing a brand new main.cvd and daily.cvd, as we do periodically to move more of the long term signatures into the main.cvd and make the daily.cvd smaller again.  
> 
> This will have an impact on your downloads of these files (as every ClamAV instance will have to re-download both files), so you may see a spike in your bandwidth usage.
> 
> We will monitor the situation on the mirror side and make any adjustments necessary, but we anticipate no issues.
> 
> https://blog.clamav.net/2021/07/new-main-daily-cvds-are-incoming.html <https://blog.clamav.net/2021/07/new-main-daily-cvds-are-incoming.html>




I wondered when (and if) you would be able to distribute a new main.cvd, given your concerns about Cloudflare bandwidth usage. I assume this means that there is (almost) no one still downloading ClamAV updates every second or so.

I also presume that my IP address won't set off any alarms tomorrow by downloading 3 complete copies of main.cvd and daily.cvd (since I gave up trying to run my own mirror many months ago).

P.S. When I was wondering about when a new 'main' might be released, it occurred to me that perhaps the CDIFF mechanism could be used to gradually remove permanent signatures from 'daily' and add the same ones to 'main', thereby significantly reducing the peak bandwidth load. (Of course this still adds to the long term bandwidth consumption -- unless the CDIFF mechanism has a "move signature" option added.)