Added. > On Oct 17, 2020, at 11:41 AM, G.W. Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Joel, > > On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users wrote: > >> That documentation lives here: >> https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-faq/blob/master/faq/faq-safebrowsing.md >> >> A pull request will allow me to review and approve. > > I'm sorry Joel, I did try to use Github's Web interface to do the edit > but by the time I'd spent an hour searching for ways around a greyed- > out commit button I'd had enough. There's too little of life left to > me to spend the rest of it fighting with productivity tools. > > Here's a suggested replacement for the file. If you don't like it, > please let me know in general terms how you'd like it improved and > I'll be happy to have a go (as long as you don't make me use Github). > > 8<---------------------------------------------------------------------- > # Safebrowsing # > > CURRENT STATUS at October 2020. > > The safebrowsing feature has now been spun off into a related project. > It requires substantially more effort to implement safebrowsing than > simply enabling the relevant freshclam.conf configuration option. > > Briefly, tools are needed to > > 1. Download the data from Google to a local mysql database using > Google's API [*]; > > 2. produce a local copy of the safebrowsing database file in a form > suitable for use by the ClamAV tools; > > 3. distribute this database file to the systems which need it; and > > 4. optionally notify any clamd daemons of the change. > > [*] For efficiency, the API permits downloading differences, in much > the same way that ClamAV itself uses .cdiff files. > > Documentation can be found at > > https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-safebrowsing > > > HISTORY > > ClamAV 0.95 introduced support for the Google Safe Browsing database. > > For use with ClamAV a copy of the database was packed inside the file > "safebrowsing.cvd" which was distributed in the same way as the other > ClamAV database files via the ClamAV mirror network. Downloading the > database was disabled by default, and the feature was to be enabled > only with extreme caution. In order to enable this feature it was > necessary to add the option `SafeBrowsing Yes` to freshclam.conf. > This would tell freshclam to download the safebrowsing.cvd database, > and when ClamAV found the database in the database directory it would > enable the safe browsing feature. To turn it off it was necessary to > remove the configuration option from freshclam.conf AND to remove the > safebrowsing files from the database directory. If clamd was running > it was necessary to restart it. > > Updates to the safebrowsing.cvd database were discontinued in 2019 and > it was declared obsolete. > 8<---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > > 73, > Ged.
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