> > https://blog.clamav.net/2021/04/are-you-still-attempting-to-download.html > <https://blog.clamav.net/2021/04/are-you-still-attempting-to-download.html> > > Are you still attempting to download safebrowsing.cvd? > > It has come to our attention that a few of you (about 515,000 of you, to be > more accurate), are still attempting to download the safebrowsing.cvd file > from the official ClamAV mirrors. This tells us that these attempted > downloads are an installation of FreshClam (a non-updated FreshClam.conf or > other script) that have not been updated to remove the safebrowsing database. > > We discontinued the distribution of the SafeBrowsing database in November of > 2019, as indicated in our blog post > <https://blog.clamav.net/2020/06/the-future-of-clamav-safebrowsing.html> back > in June, however these installations of ClamAV that have no updated and > continue to download the safebrowsing.cvd account for nearly 10TB of traffic > a month, just for that file. > > As a result, we have put in a block to make any attempts to download the > safebrowsing.cvd result in a 403 error. > > Please take a look at your FreshClam.conf file, in our upcoming version of > ClamAV (0.103.2 and beyond), we have removed all of the code that attempts to > download the safebrowsing db from our servers, (so you should update) > however, for those of you can't update right away, please find this line: > > SafeBrowsing yes > > In your Freshclam.conf file, and commenting it out like this: > > #SafeBrowsing yes > > Thank you for your support of ClamAV!
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