Re: [clamav-users] Restriction of downloads

[Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users]

> On Mar 13, 2021, at 9:33 AM, Arjen de Korte via clamav-users 
> <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> 
> In order to discourage downloading the main.cld and daily.cld files, would it 
> be an option to only update them on the download servers when a new ClamAV 
> release is made? This might nudge people that choose to not use one of the 
> recommended options to download signatures, to reconsider. This would also 
> allow for better caching, as these huge files are refreshed less frequently. 
> For people using freshclam, the only expense would be that on the first 
> download, the .cdiffs since the release need to be applied.
> 

We are currently writing a blog post that talks about this.

-- 
Joel Esler
Manager, Communities Division
Cisco Talos Intelligence Group
http://www.talosintelligence.com | https://www.snort.org

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