Jim, Glad to work with you, let’s take our conversation off list so we’re not flooding everyone.
— Sent from my iPad > On Mar 22, 2021, at 15:20, Jim Ackley via clamav-users > <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > Jim at Linode here. I’m interested in helping resolve this problem, as we’d > like to continue to recommend to Linode customers that they use ClamAV for > their needs. > > > Slow your updater down. > > > I'm fairly certain that my system is still configured with the defaults > > freshclam configuration. It looks like it's checking once an hour. > > We generally recommend customers use ClamAV in response to a system > compromise, so they’re just using whatever default configuration that came > with the package they installed. Most customers only run ClamAV when they’re > specifically looking for malware, usually from our recovery environment > (called Rescue Mode). Freshclam is usually run once in Rescue Mode. > > > Linode is our second biggest abuser. > > Is this “abuse” being caused by specific IP addresses? Or is the volume of > traffic sending from our network being categorized as “abusive”? Any > specifics you can share would be helpful in us understanding the cause of > this problem. Our impression is that use of ClamAV on our platform hasn’t > meaningfully changed recently. > > Would a private mirror help the situation? I believe we could configure > Rescue Mode to fetch updates from whatever private mirror we configure, but > if this problem originates somewhere else, I don’t know how much good that > will do. > > - Jim > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
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