ClamAV + MailScanner

Michael Baird mike at TC3NET.COM
Sat Mar 20 04:38:18 GMT 2004


I currently don't use clamav, but I would like to try it (it was rated
very well for speed of update). How would I get it to scan messages from
tmpfs? Or use it with tmpfs.

Regards
MIKE

> Hi!
>
> > First I ran MS with just ClamAV as the antivirus scanner, and then
> > ClamAVmodule as the only scanner.
> >
> > It took MS 9 minutes to process 1500 messages from the inqueue with ClamAV,
> > and it then took MS 13 minutes to process another 1500 messages with
> > ClamAVmodule.
> >
> > I reproduced this a few times, so I would state that ClamAV is faster than
> > its perl module scanner.
>
> What ClamAV version are you running, are you scanning in tmpfs? And whats
> the message batch size you are using? I have also been testing and in my
> case the lib scanner was faster actually.
>
> Bye,
> Raymond.
>



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