Hi,
I am shure that I am missing something but if I use clamscan to scan my disks it takes too mutch time (and CPU), and often I have to kill the program. I can understand clamscan would be very usefull on a mail gateway, for scanning the mail inbox or for scanning external media when they are mounted, but I didn't find a pratical way to regulary scan things as the Windows partitions on a computer. Is there some (graphical) frontend that I should use and that would limit the number of files scanned? I don't know how commercial products work. Do they really scan all files on a computer everytime or do they remember the ones they scanned allready? /I suppose you could have a frontend that uses clamscan and builds a database with the pathname of the scanned files, the size and the modification date of the scanned (big) files, the viruslibrary version of the last scan. And then decide to rescan or not. If the file is allready scanned with that version of the viruslibrary, no reason to restart. If the file is 3 months or more older than the viruslibrary to the one that was last used to scan it, no reason to rescan it everytime. However this would not work if a virus can change files without changing the modification date and the filelength, and would only infect old files... or if a virus can change the database of scanned files./ Is there some script/program that does something like this? What should I read? Kind Regards, _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
