[clamav-users] Downloading CVD files manually..

[Paul Smith]

On 07/03/2021 00:17, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote:
> Correct.  Wget is restricted. I wrote that in my email.
>
> So if you upgrade your version of freshclam/ClamAV, you should be good.  Please see our blog post made back in the beginning of February.

Sorry if I sounded a bit harsh, I totally understand the rate limiting etc.

The problem with upgrading is that we use a customised Windows version 
of ClamAV, and building ClamAV on Windows is never trivial...

I think I've managed to get Mussels working yesterday after about 4 
hours. I'm not sure what I did, but it wouldn't believe that it had a 
recipe for clamav_deps which was valid for Windows ("python3 -m mussels 
list" returned a blank list, but "python3 -m mussels list -a" showed all 
the recipes). Then, suddenly, for no obvious reason, it just started 
working properly (just as I'd decided to join the Discord to ask for 
help), so I left it building the dependencies overnight

I'm going to give building ClamAV a go today and see how far we get. And 
then we've got to test it etc.


The bigger problem was the inability to make a private mirror using the 
instructions on the ClamAV site, especially since the announcement said 
that we should do just that... If it was possible to make private 
mirrors now, then the issue would be much less. Hopefully there'll be a 
solution for that soon.

Paul

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