[clamav-users] Rate limited

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Tue, 5 Oct 2021, Adam Baliko via clamav-users wrote:

> ... my public IP is granted by my ISP. I'm assuming this is a
> dynamic IP but I have no idea how often that changes (maybe I should
> start noting the IPs which are banned, if they are different).

If I were using a dynamic IP I'd certainly want to log the IP whenever
it changed.  But it's easy (and probably free) to get a static IP, and
that's much better for tracing the causes of assorted network issues.

> ... only one machine making Clamav updates within my VLAN, so if
> there are multiple downloads from the same IP, then the only
> explanation I can think of is on the ISP level (I get a public IP
> which was banned previously). BTW, my public IP is 84.189.37.183.

It's possible, these things happen.  Now that you've given the IP, the
people who manage the abuse protection systems can take a look.

> I can't seem to be able to check the versions of Clamav.

clamscan -V

See also

man clamscan

etc. and

htps://docs.clamav.net

which is the ClamAV official documentation site, but be aware that
this is a relatively new site.  It tells you that ClamAV provides a
daemon, but not what a daemon is nor why you might want to run one.
There are more examples than I'd expect to see of things like strange
capitalization of the names of executables, and mentions of versions
of ClamAV which don't yet exist. :/  The 'man' pages are IMO generally
better, but you need to be familiar with using man pages to get the
best out of them and it sounds like you are not.  Try to work on that,
it's very useful but definitely a skill which needs to be acquired.

> I have a QNAP NAS, and as I understand Clamav is somehow baked into
> the firmware.  I am currently on the latest Firmware release if that
> is of any help.

You should search the archives of this mailing list for discussions
which mention QNAP.  There have been several in the last year or so.
There are other issues which you might need to consider.

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73,
Ged.