Some of us clamav users are behind rather substantial proxies and can't pull them easily. It's nice to have a place to download them. Just FYI.
-----Original Message----- From: clamav-users [mailto:clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net] On Behalf Of Joel Esler (jesler) Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 3:23 PM To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Feature request: show checksums of virus databases on the clamav.net website We really don’t want people downloading the cvd’s through the browser directly on the website. We really want to encourage people to use Freshclam to do this. -- Joel Esler Manager Talos Group http://www.talosintelligence.com On Sep 29, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Alexey Salmin <alexey.sal...@gmail.com<mailto:alexey.sal...@gmail.com>> wrote: Sorry if this had been proposed before, nothing showed up in my search. I suggest to display checksums (MD5, SHA or both) on the website next to CVD download links on the www.clamav.net/downloads<http://www.clamav.net/downloads> page. This will provide a user with: 1) A simple way to check if files were updated since the last download. It takes time to fetch the main.cvd. I realize that this should be possible with a custom HTTP query but it's not convenient in case you're simply using a browser to get the file. 2) A quick and a standard way to validate the integrity of the file, without going into CVD internals and digital signatures. Thank you, Alexey _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml