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Re: Antivirus programs?
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2007-10-10 15:10:09
Adam65535 wrote:
> On 10/10/07, mouss <mlist.onlyfree.fr> wrote:
>> Adam65535 wrote:
>>> On 10/9/07, Pelletier, Robert
<pelletierrcsdhr.qc.ca> wrote:
>>>> I'm using ClamAV. It's a perfect match with
Amavis, it's fast and get's
>>>> high in the reviews.
>>>>
>>> In my experiences clamav/clamd is much slower
than other mail scanners
>> (even
>>> when up against command line scanners like
uvscan).  It is still a very
>>> useful virus scanner but not fast by any means.
 For an example... the
>>> command line scanner uvscan takes .15 seconds
while clamav takes 2.6seconds
>>> for the same email.  This trend is throughout
the logs.
>>
>> Faster at short distances aren't the fastest at
long ones ;-p clam has a
>> daemonized version, which helps avoid
fork/exec/initialize (load sig db,
>> ...) for every message.
>>
> 
> Read my message again.  The timings are with using
clamd.

sure, but it says clamav, which I understood as the command
line
version. can you clarify this please?


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