I've been getting Cron /usr/share/clamav/freshclam-sleep errors for weeks now on lots of servers

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Centos 7
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v7.9.2009

WebHostPro

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Everyday I get a batch of emails from lots of servers saying:

Cron <root@xxxxx> /usr/share/clamav/freshclam-sleep

Code:
ERROR: downloadFile: Unexpected response (403) from https://database.clamav.net/daily-26440.cdiff
ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-26440.cdiff from https://database.clamav.net/daily-26440.cdiff
ERROR: downloadFile: Unexpected response (403) from https://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd
ERROR: getcvd: Can't download daily.cvd from https://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd
ERROR: Update failed for database: daily
ERROR: Database update process failed: HTTP GET failed (11)
ERROR: Update failed.
I tried to update Clam with Yum and it seems to work but the cron errors keep coming. Maybe Imunify is trying to update clam and doesn't have permission?
 
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andrew.n

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What version of cPanel do you use? I recall there were issues with ClamAV earlier and the new release fixed this a bit ago.
 
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andrew.n

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that's Cloudlinux version I believe. Once you logged into WHM what do you see on the very top right hand side?
 

Spirogg

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Sorry, 100.0.9
seems there is some issue 5 months ago with something similar here

Can you try to uninstall clam and reinstall clam via Cpanel. and see if you still get the emails ?
maybe a simple reinstall might do the trick. as in the post above is what happened

let us know if this works

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Spiro