[clamav-users] Restriction of downloads

[Joel Esler (jesler)]

It’s more fine grained than that.  Certain individual sigs require versions of ClamAV.  So it’s not the whole package, it’s the sigs within 

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> On Mar 14, 2021, at 05:46, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:
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>>>> On Mar 13, 2021, at 08:53, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:
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>>>>> On 13.03.21 12:47, Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> are freshclam versions <0.100 blocked?  Because they seem to support cdiffs.
>>>> I understand the rest.
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>> On 13.03.21 20:42, Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users wrote:
>> Yes.  But we can’t have infinite amounts of versions of downloads sticking
>> around.  People have boxes and cronjobs long forgotten sitting there
>> attempting to download the definitions for version 0.84.  If we were to
>> allow downloads for every version, we might as well shut down the project. Plus, it’s security software….  Update it!
> 
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Do those versions cause some additional problems for your mirrors?
>> 
>> Yes.  It’s at least two more versions downloading.  Every version adds
>> additional bandwidth consumption to the mirror network.
> 
> are there different versions of clamav databases for different versions of
> clamav scanner?
> 
> I remember that few years ago, new signature was intentionally put to
> database to crash make older clamav versions fail, but with proper message.
> 
> That one indicated there was only one version available at that time.
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