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

[Arjen de Korte]

Citeren Nick Howitt via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>:

> Not quite. I have taken over the packaging of this and the  
> justification of packaging the sigs is partly that the tool will  
> work and scan out of the box, partly for the offline consideration  
> and partly because there will be a delay after installation where  
> ClamAV is installed but not in a running condition. IIRC it won't  
> even start without a database. This means that a yum install will  
> need to pause and run freshclam before it can attempt to start  
> clamd. This has knock-on issues and, apparently, it is always best  
> for yum todownload what it needs with yum and not some third party  
> tool.

One thing to remember is, is that if you intend your packaging tool to  
rebuild the package frequently (daily? weekly?), you'll be  
indistinguishable from abusive downloaders who download the full  
database over and over again (and don't use freshclam / cvdupdate  
instead). This will get your IP blacklisted fairly quickly as you  
empirically found out already.

One option would be to setup a local database mirror that is updated  
through either freshclam or cvdupdate and let your packaging tool  
download the database from there with whatever method you see fit  
(wget, curl). That will prevent frequent downloading the full database  
from the ClamAV servers, yet will allow you to package fresh database  
files as often as you see fit.