[clamav-users] QNAP Antivirus Updates

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Sun, 19 Sep 2021, Gregory Poveda via clamav-users wrote:

> I have several QNAPs

It might be worth searching for 'QNAP' in the list archives.  At least
some of those devices will struggle to run ClamAV - or rather, ClamAV
out of the box - for lack of memory.

> on a locked down network that have the Clamav.net antivirus package/
> software installed. Something changed on the 16th and I have been
> unable to get updates. I have an ACL that blocks all traffic on this
> network unless I define its IPs/DNS addresses. I had set the two DNS
> addresses that I had detected back in March in the ACL, those are as
> follows: clamav.net (199.62.84.153) which appears to check if the
> database as an update and database.clamav.net (198.148.79.54) which
> has the update file.

If you don't mind my saying so, that's a fragile setup.  IPs can and
do change without notice.

> Did the DNS names change or has the database stopped providing
> updates?

Check the very recent thread  "Virus DB  updates?".

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73,
Ged.