Downloading the entire databases unnecessarily (using web browsers, etc) is banned because it results in higher volumes of data transfer which, in turn, costs more money. As such, using things other than freshclam or cvdupdate were explicitly banned.
There’s not much else to say. Maarten > On Jul 2, 2022, at 11:33, Grant Taylor via clamav-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7/2/22 9:09 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> this (downloading using chrome or other http clients) has caused problem to >> delivery network and was blocked: >> https://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-users/2021-March/010544.html > > That message doesn't elaborate on what problem(s) was (were) caused. > > The message does call out that people were downloading files too many times a > day when the file would change nominally once a day. > >> Use freshclam or cvdupdate: https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/cvdupdate > > I understand that freshclam / cvupdate have some optimizations to determine > if an update is needed or not. > > I fail to see how using chrome, et al., or anything other than freshclam / > cvupdate, with a weekly cadence will cause any problems for any server, much > less reputable CDN. > > What am I not understanding? Please clarify what problem(s) was (were) > caused. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-documentation > > https://docs.clamav.net/#mailing-lists-and-chat _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-documentation https://docs.clamav.net/#mailing-lists-and-chat
