Downloading main.cvd for clamav is very sloooooooooooow

I though i would try out Clamav. After installation and a reboot, As su I issued freshclam.

ClamAV update process started at Mon Apr 18 22:29:22 2011
Downloading main.cvd 72%]
the time at that point is 23:32 for 19 MB
The download is so slow that I wonder if Clamav is really meant to be used.
What is the proper way to get the virus definition files/s?

On 04/19/2011 06:06 AM, lupejus wrote:
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> What is the proper way to get the virus definition files/s?

-=welcome=- new poster…

but, you give so very little information i wouldn’t know where to
start…i don’t know if you have a network problem, and if so if it is
in your corporate networks proxy setup, or in your ISPs filtering, or
inside your machine with a mis-configured thingamagig…

did you review man freshclam to learn the command line switches
available for that method of updating the sig file…but, doesn’t the
documentation give methods/addresses to fetch with other avenues (like
ftp or hhtp)? *

how did you install Clam? how did you set it up? is it to check the ins
and outs of your enterprise mail server…is that a rack mount? is it
local or distant, in a hosting facility?

maybe that hosting facility has a network problem…have you asked them?

nor do i know if it a machine (hardware) problem, or a softwear set up
problem or a reading problem…


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On 2011-04-19 06:06, lupejus wrote:
> What is the proper way to get the virus definition files/s?

Via service (rcfreshclam). It takes about a minute here, except the first time.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)