F-Prot 6 (and lack of speed thereof)

[Rick Cooper]

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 > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
 > Behalf Of Julian Field
 > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:56 AM
 > To: MailScanner discussion
 > Subject: Re: F-Prot 6 (and lack of speed thereof)
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 > I have just released 4.68.1 which includes support for the scanner 
 > "f-protd-6" which uses the fpscand daemon provided with 
 > F-Prot 6. Very 
 > much faster than the scanner "f-prot-6" which uses the command-line 
 > scanner provided with F-Prot 6.
 > 

I haven't downloaded this version of MailScanner yet but I did try a
modified version of the perl client that comes with f-prot and I am amazed
at the speed difference! It was so fast scanning a 128 mb exe that I had to
test it with a couple eicar variants just to be sure it was actually reading
the files. In my opinion this is the fastest scanner I have yet to come
across and was wondering if you are seeing the same thing.

I added a fpscand wrapper for my test viralator/squid setup and the speed is
phenomenal, the load is insignificant and I might just move this into the
larger user base squid servers... Clamd, f-prot, bdc were all too slow on
large files (hell clamd caused many timeout issues because of it's poor
speed) and fpscand just zips through even huge files in literally seconds.
Thanks for getting me interested in this product Julian.

Rick


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