source: clamav.securiteinfo.com cannot be resolved

[Paede]

I got every day a cron message which tells me:

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: clamav.securiteinfo.com
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: clamav.securiteinfo.com
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: clamav.securiteinfo.com
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: clamav.securiteinfo.com
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: clamav.securiteinfo.com
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: clamav.securiteinfo.com
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: clamav.securiteinfo.com
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: clamav.securiteinfo.com
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: clamav.securiteinfo.com

Looks like one source is no longer valid and should be fixed or removed

[Paede (patrick-steiner-gmx)]

This source should be removed:

see:
http://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-users/2015-March/001374.html

[DanglingPointer (ferncasado)]

How do we remove the source?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[jonhattan (jonhattan)]

To remove the source: `rm /etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs.conf.d/si-dbs.conf`

[DanglingPointer (ferncasado)]

@jonhattan
That command doesn't work, the file doesn't exist! The only thing on that path is a README file.

[Keen Mouse (keenmouse)]

Same problem here and, as ferncasado mentioned, /etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs.conf.d/si-dbs.conf does not exist.

[jimlovell777 (jimlovell777)]

For those that don't have /etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs.conf.d/si-dbs.conf, see if /usr/share/clamav-unofficial-sigs/conf.d/00-clamav-unofficial-sigs.conf exists and then try commenting out (or removing) the following.

# ========================
# SecuriteInfo Database(s)
# ========================
# Add or remove database file names between quote marks as needed. To
# disable any SecuriteInfo database downloads, remove the appropriate
# lines below. To disable all SecuriteInfo database file downloads,
# comment all of the following lines.
si_dbs="
   honeynet.hdb
   securiteinfo.hdb
   securiteinfobat.hdb
   securiteinfodos.hdb
   securiteinfoelf.hdb
   securiteinfohtml.hdb
   securiteinfooffice.hdb
   securiteinfopdf.hdb
   securiteinfosh.hdb
"

# Since the SecuriteInfo databases are only updated a few time each
# month, set a time interval to do database update checks.
si_update_hours="4" # Default is 4 hours (6 update checks daily).

Solved the problem for me. I may just remove the package though and go with the github version/option https://github.com/extremeshok/clamav-unofficial-sigs

[DanglingPointer (ferncasado)]

When are we going to get a permanent fix for this? It is Sat Nov 10 2018!

[Beleggrodion (roger-meier)]

It looks like that this config entries are still exists in ubuntu 22.04.3 lts. No one is realy maintaining this package as also seen in /usr/share/doc/clamav-unofficial-sigs/changelog.Debian.gz of the package. the latest upstream version from the original author was 10 years ago.