[clamav-users] Virus database not updated since 14th July 2021

[Jerzy Witwinowski]

@ Maarten Broekman - I'm using the version 0.103.5 which, I think, is 
the current version in KDE Neon repos (KDE Neon being based on Ubuntu 
20). But what I did yesterday (manual tuning of the configuration file, 
lowering the number of times per day the updates are fetched and 
increasing the receive timeout) helped. This evening, when I started my 
computer after returning from work, I checked the version of the virus 
database and saw that ClamAV had managed to update it.


@ G.W. Haywood - Hopefully after manual tweaking of the config file 
everything works again as it should (as I explained in my answer to 
Maarten Broekman above). And it's not that I've been neglecting the 
security... It's just that as everything had been working smooth and 
fine since I've installed ClamAV many years ago, I've stopped manually 
checking if everything was still OK (because why would it stop working 
after all those years?)... My bad.


Anyway, three things:


1. I would like to apologize for writing BEFORE I could verify if the 
manual tweaks would work once my cool-down period lifted.

2. Thank you all for your patience and your help.

3. There is still one question that puzzles me: why the default 
configuration of ClamAV (checking for updates every hour, Retrieve 
Timeout set to 30) is designed in a way that leads directly to the ban 
by the CDN and renders the software useless?