[clamav-users] Not able to use curl to download the cvd files successfully

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Mon, 8 Mar 2021, Todd Aiken wrote:

> > ... May I know why I am not able to use curl to download the cvd
> > files successfully? The cvd files show error code 1020. ...
>
> This is Cloudfare "protecting" the ClamAV website.  You can bypass
> it by sending a fake user agent string, like this:
> 
> curl -A "Mozilla/5.0" http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd --output daily.cvd
> or using wget:
> wget --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0" http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd''
>
> Todd A. Aiken
> Systems Analyst & Administrator
> ITS Department
> BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY
> 2600 College Street
> Sherbrooke, Quebec
> CANADA   J1M 1Z7

I don't understand why you put "protecting" in quotes, because that's
exactly what's happening.  There are IPs downloading the entire main
and daily databases several times per second, which can only represent
either malice or breathtaking stupidity.  See Joel's post here

https://marc.info/?l=clamav-users&m=161516064110943&w=2

and try not to be stupid.

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73,
Ged.