F-Prot 6 (and lack of speed thereof)

[Julian Field]

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BTW I found one small bug in my fpscand support, I'll issue a fix 
tomorrow. It doesn't like filenames with spaces in.

Rick Cooper wrote:
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>  > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:56 AM
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>  > 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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Jules

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