Re: Antivirus programs?

Clifton Royston wrote the following on 10/10/2007 5:20 PM
-0800:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:07:52PM -0400, Adam65535
wrote:
>   
>> On 10/10/07, Rob MacGregor <rob.macgregorgmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I've never yet seen clamd take anything close
to that on emails.  I
>>> have to add SpamAssassin to the process to get
anything close to that
>>> kind of delay.
>>>
>>> As a quick test, I ran clamdscan against
sample-nonspam.txt (that came
>>> with SpamAssassin some time back) and it took
0.015s.
>>>
>>> Now, clamscan, that took 2.6s for the same scan
(f-prot took 0.3s,
>>> bitdefender a mind blowing 6.3).
>>>
>>>       
>> Well the timings I did locally on that simple email
confirm what everyone
>> else has been stating.  Uvscan is slower than
clamd.  Either I have been
>> transposing these two timing all this time or one
of the clamav/clamd
>> updates improved things.  Going by everyone
comments it sure seems like I
>> have been transposing these numbers :/. 
>>     
>
> It might be something of both; there was also one of
the clamav updates
> in the past year which speeded daemon mode up
tremendously, IME.
>
>   -- Clifton
>
>   
I thought the update had to do with how long it took clamd
to load its
signature file upon startup. I haven't seen any changes in
clamd scan
times once the signature files are initially loaded.

Bill


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