Re: manual download av definitions updates how long ?

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025, Dirk Nichterwitz via clamav-users wrote:

> Am 10.06.25 um 22:25 schrieb Joel Esler:
>> Manual downloads of the definitions were blocked about 
>> 5 years ago.
>
> That's not really true.
>
> You can already download it from here
>
> * |https://database.clamav.net/main.cvd|
> * |https://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd|
> * |https://database.clamav.net/bytecode.cvd|
>
> But the question is how long will that be possible

Officially only freshclam and the other official tool may download
from those links.  I don't imagine that there are plans for freshclam
to stop using these links but if you are successfully using them for
manual downloads, that is a bug which may be fixed without warning.

But, I'm only a user and what I say is in no way official.

>>> On Jun 10, 2025, at 04:39, Dirk Nichterwitz via 
>>> clamav-users<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> can someone tell how long the official manual 
>>> download of AV definition files will be possible ?
>>> 
>>> Is there a official statement ?

-- 
Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                     [email protected]
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