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Wed Mar 17 22:50:24 MST 2010
"Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, d=
esigned especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways."<br>
Are you running a "mail gateway"?<br>
Do you even know what it is?<br>
(Now risking to be burned on a bonfire)<br>
Is there any value in compromising the performance of a machine by scanning=
for viruses that mostly only exist in M$ junk?<br>
There are LOTS of articles about it, and I chose the next one fairly random=
ly:<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/06/linux_vs_windows_viruses=
/" target=3D"_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/06/linux_vs_windo=
ws_viruses/</a><br>
I would not waste my time (and bog down my machine) looking for mostly unex=
isting threats. =C2=A0Sounds to me like creating real problems to prevent p=
otential problems or vaccinating against "headaches".<br>
Clamav is a complex sucker, I run it on my "mail gateway"<br>
(Yes, I run one)<br>
My free advice?<br>
apt-get uninstall clamav<br>
Fire away...<br>
ET<br>
<br>
<br>
betty writes:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; borde=
r-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
ok, that is great. i looked and i did download freshclam and it is set to u=
pdate every hour !<br>
how cool is that. now i'll figure out how to set it up to scan once a d=
ay or something i guess?<br>
thank you so much.<br>
betty i.<br>
Joseph Sinclair wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; borde=
r-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
ClamAV is typically updated via a separate package called FreshClam (in Ubu=
ntu, apt-get install clamav-freshclam).<br>
freshclam is a background daemon that updates the AV signatures automatical=
ly based on settings in /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf (default us typically to=
check every hour).<br>
You can control the update frequency from the clamtk window (if it's *v=
ery* recent, many distros are behind in this) via advanced|schedule.<br>
If you prefer using a GUI, you might also look at klamav, which is a KDE fr=
ontend for clam. =C2=A0Be warned klamav brings in dazuko and does on-access=
scanning, which is probably not needed for Linux systems, and may be harmf=
ul to system performance and stability.<br>
<br>
=3D=3DJoseph++<br>
betty wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; borde=
r-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
stupid question alert; please do not read if you have no patience.<br>
I am using clamAV and clam tk, (3.05) so that i can use the gui.<br>
it's supposed to have automatic updates, how will i know if it is<br>
updating it's signatures? [using a gui]<br>
does it run itself automatically or do i need to do that every so often?<br=
>
thanks again for all the help.<br>
betty i.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Hi Betty,<br><br>You might look in the l=
ogs under /var/log/clamd where freshclam writes it's complaints and boa=
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