Multiple scanner - why call more than one?

[Kevin Spicer]

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 11:28, Garry Glendown wrote:
> I was just wondering - with multiple virus scanners installed and used,
> what's the point in calling the second one once a file is already
> identified as a virus?

Because all messages (and files from them) in a batch are scanned
together.  By the time you've excluded the ones you've already picked up
and called the scanner on individual files rather than the batch you've
lost the performance gains several times over.

Also its nice to see which scanners did or didn't catch the virus.





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