> On Mar 16, 2022, at 5:35 AM, Gary R. Schmidt <grschm...@acm.org> wrote: > > On 16/03/2022 20:19, Christoph Moench-Tegeder via clamav-users wrote: >> ## Joel Esler via clamav-users (clamav-users@lists.clamav.net): >>> Can’t use wget. >> Looks like "can't use anything which doesn't look like a web browser", >> as BSD fetch hits the 403, too. >> That's a major PITA on the BSD side (just like openSuse), but it >> was working just fine at the time of the 0.104.2 release (and all >> the time prior to that). Is there any reason behind making the source >> (not talking about the database files) inaccessible like that? > > Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained > by neglect, ignorance, or incompetence." > > With the added FLOSS variant, "or trying to show just how much smarter they > are than everybody else.”
It was done because there are people that download the entire ClamAV package from the same every every 1 minute and do a complete reinstall. _______________________________________________ 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
