Problem with ClamAV update

[Julian Field]

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Scott Silva wrote:

>Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
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>>Which program of Clam does it use.  Clamscan? 
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>Behalf Of Scott Silva
>>Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:16 AM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: Problem with ClamAV update
>>
>>Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
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>>>Little bit different question if I may.
>>>
>>>How does MailScanner use ClamAV?  Looks like it doesn't use clamd.
>>>Would someone help me understand why and how MailScanner uses clamav?
>>>
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>>Mailscanner unpacks a batch of messages to a temporary directory tree,
>>and then runs the command line scanners on that directory.
>>When the scanners report back infections. MailScanner, since it kept
>>track of where each message was unpacked, can parse the output and
>>delete/quarantine/warn of each infected message.
>>
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>Yes clamscan, unless you are using the clamavmodule, then it is a
>scanner in perl, using the clam database.
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The clamavmodule is the fastest way of calling ClamAV, faster than using 
spamd or spamc. My method does not require starting any programs at all, 
it just directly calls the C ClamAV function library straight from Perl.

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