November 2009
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ClamAV is provided by volunteers, and the servers and bandwidth that are used to enable the software and virus database to be distributed are voluntarily funded. As such, it is important to ensure that there is a balance between the frequency of checking for updates to maintain an up-to-date database and overloading the various servers.
The ClamAV group recommends the following: If you are running ClamAV 0.8x or higher, you can check for database updates as often as four times per hour provided you have the following option in freshclam.conf: DNSDatabaseInfo current.cvd.clamav.net.
If you don't have that option, you must stick with one check per hour.
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