Error 403 while manually downloading the virus database with wget

[Gulraiz832]

Hi I am trying to download virus database using
wget -O /var/lib/clamav/main.cvd http://database.clamav.net/main.cvd

But it is returning 403 forbidden

[finchy]

You must use freshclam or cvdupdate to download the ruleset.

[micahsnyder]

@finchy answer is correct.

Please do not try to find a work-around to use some other tool. Freshclam and cvdupdate are specially designed to only download the databases if there is a newer version. Freshclam, specifically, will update using patch file to further save bandwidth. These are cost-saving measures to keep it affordable for us to continue to deliver the free malware detection rules.