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AntiVirus No Longer Updating
Since 30th September, I have been getting an email from my RN214 advising me that the "Antivirus scanner definition file update failed due to download failure. Check your Internet connection." I ...
Since it appears ClamAV has expressly disabled updates for the older version, there is most likely a reason for that. My guess would be that they made some sort of change in the format of the definitions file for later versions and don't want to have to keep distributing the old format one. If that's the case, a file designed for a newer version wouldn't work and at worst might stop your NAS from properly booting (though I think that's unlikely).
That may be the case, but looking at ClamAV's Version Support Matrix it looks like they have a policy in regularly stopping updates for older versions in a rolling pattern, (very roughly 4 years after that version is released), rather than a definite break between an old and new format?
https://docs.clamav.net/faq/faq-eol.html#version-support-matrix
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