[clamav-users] Permanently banned from clamav

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 02.07.22 16:27, Calogero Di Legami via clamav-users wrote:
>I tried to download them with chrome version 103, on a mac running Mac OS X
>10.5.7 with latest security patches

so, neither freshclam, nor cvdupdate

this (downloading using chrome or other http clients) has caused problem to 
delivery network and was blocked:

https://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-users/2021-March/010544.html

Use freshclam or cvdupdate: https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/cvdupdate


>> 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?

>Il sab 2 lug 2022, 15:52 G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <
>clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> ha scritto:
>> 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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