At 09:42 AM 9/8/2006, mcd wrote:
This is an interesting approach, but let me explain a
little more. I will be
running md5sums for every file on a system. I will then
compare that list of
md5sums against a list of md5sums that are know to be
virus free. The files
that do not have valid md5sums in the database will then
need to be scanned.
In a lot of situations this list of files will be in the
thousands. At this
point would I be better off calling clamscan to scan the
entire disk, or
call clamscan 10,000+ times with unknown files? I hope I
am making this
clear. Thanks for all of your help.
cat big.list.of.files | xargs clamscan
"man xargs" to see a description and options.
You could alternately use clamdscan, but then you may run
into permission problems as clamd usually isn't run as root.
--
Noel Jones
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