[clamav-users] I can't update Clamav database for 5 days

[Paul Smith]

On 07/03/2021 15:55, Arjen de Korte via clamav-users wrote:
>
> This was announced almost a month ago on on both the clamav-announce 
> and clamav-users mailinglists. This has not been caused by the changes 
> to prevent excessive downloads.
>
> See 
> https://blog.clamav.net/2021/02/clamav-eol-versions-prior-to-0100.html

I'm sorry, but that does not say "it will not work", just "we won't test 
signatures". As it happens the current CVDs work perfectly well with 
ClamAV 0.99, it's just that FreshClam 0.99 can't download them (because 
of the way the rate limiting has been implemented)

"End of life (EOL) for ClamAV essentially means that we will no longer 
be testing against that version when we write signatures, and we may 
break something with a future release. So, while signatures may work 
past March 1, we are no longer testing that configuration."

That announcement is saying that things may break with a future release. 
There hasn't been a future release of ClamAV since that announcement. 
It's also not saying that the old FreshClam won't be able to download 
the updates, just that they may not work in ClamAV.

The changes to prevent excessive downloads are what triggered old 
FreshClam failing.

It's the same reason that wget won't work (for implementing private 
mirrors). It all happened at exactly the same time.

See: https://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-users/2021-March/010559.html

Note that I'm not complaining that the rate limiting has been 
implemented, but a warning that private mirrors and old Freshclam would 
definitely stop working would have been nice, but, as I understand it, 
the rate limiting was forced upon them by external factors, so prior 
warning wasn't possible.


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