[clamav-users] Restriction of downloads

Sat Mar 13 12:47:08 UTC 2021

Team—

The qnap and synology issues are a result of the EOL of <0.100. Not as a result of the abusive downloaders. Two separate issues.

Our EOL policy that has been in place is “current version with all minor patches and one back with all minor patches”. This has been our policy for about 8–10 years. Our current version is 0.103.1, which means according to our EOL policy, we should allow .103, and .102. Everything below that we should block.

It is becoming more and more necessary to enforce these cut off points because of many reasons. Load to the mirror network being one. So, .100, and .101 will continue to be supported for a bit, but soon, we’re going to have to cut those off too.

The vast majority of ClamAV users are on 0.102.4. The outliners are people that haven’t upgraded to a latest version should start upgrading to get ahead of the curve.

Sent from my  iPhone

On Mar 13, 2021, at 05:52, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:

I just found that my "antivirus essentiel" installed package
provided by Synology is unable to update virus definition file since
03/06/2021 !

On 13/03/2021 00:47, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote:
Then should you not be talking to Synology?

On 13.03.21 11:16, Paul Smith via clamav-users wrote:
Maybe Synology and QNAP, etc could run private mirrors for their devices which they don't provide up-to-date Freshclam for...

QNAP runs freshclam. checked now with my 419P+:

ClamAV update process started at Sat Mar 13 12:47:36 2021
WARNING: getpatch: Can't download main-55.cdiff from database.clamav.net
ERROR: getpatch: Can't download main-55.cdiff from database.clamav.net
WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download main.cvd
ERROR: Can't download main.cvd from database.clamav.net
Giving up on database.clamav.net...
Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in /etc/config/freshclam.conf is working. Check http://www.clamav.net/doc/mirrors-faq.html for possible reasons.

However, many of QNAP devices have obsolete clamav version:

[~] # freshclam -V
ClamAV 0.99.3/17260/Wed May 22 12:40:22 2013

--
Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar at fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/
Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address.
Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu.
Microsoft dick is soft to do no harm

_______________________________________________

clamav-users mailing list
clamav-users at lists.clamav.net
https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users

Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide:
https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq

http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-users/attachments/20210313/3fb1601b/attachment.htm>