[clamav-users] freshclam: Verification: Can't verify database integrity

[Peter Gervai]

Ahoj,

On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 4:49 PM Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:

> >As a sidenote: the mirror network happily block freshclam for a day due to rate limiting,
> >no matter what's in the freshclam config. It is rather hard to resolve since it is
> >not possible to download the database files manually anymore (I had to realise that
> >the hard way.)
>
> don't you run multiple clients behind the same IP address?

Nope. (Not one the machine in question anyway.) But frashclam tried to
access the default list of mirrors, which is 5-6 calls per 10 minutes
or about.

> If so, set up private mirror.

Indeed, on the _other_ systems I'll do that before upgrading, already
checked that it works well.

> The clamav network was abused by multiple clients downloading whole databases too often, so quite drastic measures were set up.

I guessed but there could be a captcha-protected manual download to
ease the pain.
I have cvdupdate'd it, but took some time to find the tool.

Thanks,
Peter