The default in the source code is 12 times a day. > # Number of database checks per day. > # Default: 12 (every two hours) > #Checks 24
The Troubleshooting FAQ <https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq/blob/master/faq/faq-troubleshoot.md> still says: > • How many times per hour shall I run freshclam? > If you are running ClamAV 0.8x or later, you can check for database update as > often as 4 times per hour provided that you have the following options in > freshclam.conf: > DNSDatabaseInfo > current.cvd.clamav.net > DatabaseMirror db.XY.clamav.net > DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net > Replace XY with your "country code":iana. If you don't have that option, then > you must stick with 1 check per hour. -Al- On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 01:09 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 30.06.15 09:26, Gene Heskett wrote: >> While personally investigating it here, I came to /etc/freshclam.conf, >> and discovered it was checking hourly. IMO that is really severe abuse >> of a free service, so I reset it to 12x daily and may even set it down >> to 2x a day. > > the default seems to be 48 daily checks, so I wouldn't consider 24 checks a > day to be abuse... imho it's better to have fresh database. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
