diff --git a/capa/ida/plugin/form.py b/capa/ida/plugin/form.py
index eb205ae6..e2bde4e8 100644
--- a/capa/ida/plugin/form.py
+++ b/capa/ida/plugin/form.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ from PyQt5 import QtGui, QtCore, QtWidgets
 import capa.main
 import capa.rules
 import capa.engine
+import capa.version
 import capa.ida.helpers
 import capa.render.json
 import capa.features.common
@@ -701,16 +702,13 @@ class CapaExplorerForm(idaapi.PluginForm):
             )
             logger.error("Failed to load rules from %s (error: %s).", settings.user[CAPA_SETTINGS_RULE_PATH], e)
             logger.error(
-                "Make sure your file directory contains properly formatted capa rules. You can download the standard collection of capa rules from https://github.com/mandiant/capa-rules."
+                "Make sure your file directory contains properly formatted capa rules. You can download the standard "
+                "collection of capa rules from https://github.com/mandiant/capa-rules/releases."
             )
             logger.error(
                 "Please ensure you're using the rules that correspond to your major version of capa (%s)",
                 capa.version.get_major_version(),
             )
-            logger.error(
-                "You can check out these rules with the following command:\n    %s",
-                capa.version.get_rules_checkout_command(),
-            )
             logger.error(
                 "Or, for more details, see the rule set documentation here: %s",
                 "https://github.com/mandiant/capa/blob/master/doc/rules.md",
diff --git a/capa/main.py b/capa/main.py
index c973b61d..2641e7fa 100644
--- a/capa/main.py
+++ b/capa/main.py
@@ -1034,12 +1034,12 @@ def main(argv=None):
     except (IOError, capa.rules.InvalidRule, capa.rules.InvalidRuleSet) as e:
         logger.error("%s", str(e))
         logger.error(
-            "Please ensure you're using the rules that correspond to your major version of capa (%s)",
-            capa.version.get_major_version(),
+            "Make sure your file directory contains properly formatted capa rules. You can download the standard "
+            "collection of capa rules from https://github.com/mandiant/capa-rules/releases."
         )
         logger.error(
-            "You can check out these rules with the following command:\n    %s",
-            capa.version.get_rules_checkout_command(),
+            "Please ensure you're using the rules that correspond to your major version of capa (%s)",
+            capa.version.get_major_version(),
         )
         logger.error(
             "Or, for more details, see the rule set documentation here: %s",
diff --git a/capa/version.py b/capa/version.py
index 740d7f28..af021c70 100644
--- a/capa/version.py
+++ b/capa/version.py
@@ -3,11 +3,3 @@ __version__ = "4.0.1"
 
 def get_major_version():
     return int(__version__.partition(".")[0])
-
-
-def get_rules_branch():
-    return f"v{get_major_version()}"
-
-
-def get_rules_checkout_command():
-    return f"$ git clone https://github.com/mandiant/capa-rules.git -b {get_rules_branch()} /local/path/to/rules"