[clamav-users] Anyone else having trouble reaching the ClamAV website?

Kris Deugau kdeugau at vianet.ca
Thu Jan 5 15:18:38 UTC 2023


I went to load a semi-bookmarked page for signature writing 
(https://docs.clamav.net/manual/Signatures.html), but it failed and kept 
reloading Cloudflare's "security check" voodoo.

(Side question to pass up the chain at Cisco/Talos - is there a knob 
that can be twisted somewhere to force that check to run exactly once, 
then stop?  I can't imagine any scenario where running it over and over 
and over has any benefit to anyone.  [And for bonus points, display an 
error message that gives some sliver of a hint what 
beyond-the-bleeding-edge headacheware the site or its security provider 
insist on relying on this week.])

I then tried to load the main site, https://www.clamav.net, which also 
went into the same loop.

I usually use Seamonkey (all-in-one Mozilla suite).  I tried Konqueror 
which seemed to load things up fine.

Since starting to write this and putting it aside, I've come across a 
small handful of other sites with the same issue, including one case 
where the base site triggered the issue but a directory under the base 
site did not.  Since I'm *not* seeing it across a large number of sites, 
it's pretty clearly some specific security option in Cloudflare causing 
the failure.

-kgd


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