This is correct. — Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 2, 2022, at 11:50, Maarten Broekman via clamav-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
