[clamav-users] ClamAV 0.105 release candidate

[Bowie Bailey]

On 3/16/2022 10:09 AM, Joel Esler via clamav-users wrote:
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>> On Mar 16, 2022, at 5:35 AM, Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt at acm.org> wrote:
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>> On 16/03/2022 20:19, Christoph Moench-Tegeder via clamav-users wrote:
>>> ## Joel Esler via clamav-users (clamav-users at lists.clamav.net):
>>>> Can’t use wget.
>>> Looks like "can't use anything which doesn't look like a web browser",
>>> as BSD fetch hits the 403, too.
>>> That's a major PITA on the BSD side (just like openSuse), but it
>>> was working just fine at the time of the 0.104.2 release (and all
>>> the time prior to that). Is there any reason behind making the source
>>> (not talking about the database files) inaccessible like that?
>> Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance, or incompetence."
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>> With the added FLOSS variant, "or trying to show just how much smarter they are than everybody else.”
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> It was done because there are people that download the entire ClamAV package from the same every every 1 minute and do a complete reinstall.

Why not simply block the IP addresses that are doing excessive downloads?  There 
can't be that many people who are doing constant rebuilds.

The system I use for building ClamAV has no GUI.  I download the files by grabbing 
the URL from my desktop and then pasting it into a wget on the build machine.  Am I 
going to have to make wget spoof its user-agent every time I need to update ClamAV?  
What happens when the people you were complaining about start doing the same thing?

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Bowie