[clamav-users] Permanently banned from clamav

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Sat, 2 Jul 2022, Calogero Di Legami via clamav-users wrote:

> Hi, i'm Calogero Di Legami, I'm 24 and I live in Italy
> My ISP is Tiscali, a normal Italian ISP
> This morning when i tried to download “daily.cvd”, cloudflare told me that
> i was permanently banned
> Why?

There has been widespread and serious abuse of the Content Delivery
Network, which forced the introduction of protection mechanisms.
Regular downloading of the entire daily database is not acceptable.
There are alternatives which cause much less network traffic.

Your problem *might* be because the IP address that you were using has
been seen to be abusive, or it might be because of the download method
which you were trying to use.

How were you trying to download the daily database?

The accepted method is to use the freshclam utility which was provided
with a fairly recent version of ClamAV.  The utility takes care to use
the minimum network bandwith.  Not using freshclam, or using a version
which is too old, are both likely to cause problems.

More information:

https://blog.clamav.net/

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73,
Ged.