[clamav-users] Where can I download daily.cvd, bytecode.cvd and main.cvd from?

[Andrew C Aitchison]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, Nick Howitt via clamav-users wrote:

> Isn't that a bit messy? It would be so much easier to be able to use curl, 
> wget or any browser to get the sigs so we can package them directly

Unfortunately the server load was ridiculus and that had to be stopped.
Petabyte per day IIRC. Some IPs attempted thousands of downloads per 
second !

> - not 
> have to install some uncommon download package and then download them. That 
> is making people jump through unnecessary hoops. I am not trying use a 
> segmented network and hosts can generally reach the internet. I just want to 
> be able to package the sigs in a v0.103.5 rpm for my distro in the same way 
> as EPEL does.

Does the EPEL build system still work ?

If cvdupdate is too obscure, you could use the freshclam program
which you have just built for your package.

> On 17/01/2022 14:17, Joel Esler wrote:
>> 
>> This is what cvdupdate was designed for.  Please use that.
>> 
>> —
>> Sent from my  iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jan 17, 2022, at 09:12, Nick Howitt via clamav-users 
>>> <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Please tell that to EPEL as well. We want to be able to distribute a 
>>> package which, in emergency, can be transferred to a standalone (read 
>>> compromised device removed from the network) and have the rpm install 
>>> something which can directly virus scan. Without the three files, it 
>>> can't. I presume that is similar logic to EPEL.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, I've managed to get the files through a VPN so changing my IP, but 
>>> this is messy. There must be a better way to do it.
>>> 
>>> Nick
>>> 
>>>> On 17/01/2022 14:01, Maarten Broekman via clamav-users wrote:
>>>> Running freshclam after the package is installed should pull any/all of 
>>>> the files that are missing. That is probably the best way to do it.
>>>> --Maarten
>>>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 8:32 AM Nick Howitt via clamav-users 
>>>> <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net <mailto:clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>     Hi,
>>>>     I am trying to package ClamAV 0.103.5 for ClearOS. Normally they
>>>>     package the latest three signature files listed above with their
>>>>     distributable rpm in the same way that EPEL do so they have a
>>>>     working package on installation rather than requiring freshclam to
>>>>     run first. Unfortunately it looks like the links to the three files
>>>>     have been removed from https://www.clamav.net/downloads
>>>>     <https://www.clamav.net/downloads> and I would like to get the
>>>>     latest signatures so I can update the package. How can I get hold of
>>>>     the files?
>>>>     Looking at the EPEL Sources, they download from:
>>>>     https://database.clamav.net/main.cvd
>>>>     <https://database.clamav.net/main.cvd>
>>>>     https://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd
>>>>     <https://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd>
>>>>     https://database.clamav.net/bytecode.cvd
>>>>     <https://database.clamav.net/bytecode.cvd>
>>>>     But I am being blocked by cloudflare:
>>>>       Error 1015
>>>>     Ray ID: 6cefeaa67bc1549a • 2022-01-17 13:26:40 UTC
>>>>         You are being rate limited
>>>>         What happened?
>>>>     The owner of this website (database.clamav.net
>>>>     <http://database.clamav.net>) has banned you temporarily from
>>>>     accessing this website.
>>>>     How can I proceed as I would like to get an updated package built
>>>>     for ClearOS
>>>>     Thanks,
>>>>     Nick
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