Kaspersky Virus Issues

[James A. Pattie]

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Hello,

        I have a user of DansGuardian Anti-Virus that is using Kaspersky
anti-virus.  He complained about really long scan times of > 100
seconds.  When I looked into it, it appears that the kaspersky-wrapper
script is running the kavscanner program, but it never returns or
outputs anything.  This is Kaspersky 3.0 build 136.

        I tracked it down to kaspersky needing to be in the /opt/AVP directory
when calling kavscanner so that it could load it's definition files.
Even then, it is taking around 9-13 seconds to scan small html files
where f-prot does it in 0-1 seconds.  I added a 'cd ${PackageDir}'
before the exec line.

        Can anyone comment to verify if I have correctly resolved this and/or
if a newer version of Kaspersky can be launched from anywhere and still
get to it's virus definition files?

        Thank you,
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James A. Pattie
james at pcxperience.com

Linux  --  SysAdmin / Programmer
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