On Sunday 17 June 2007 11:52, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of June 17, 2007 11:44:04 AM -0700, Thomas Spuhler is alleged to have > > said: > >> Use clamdscan instead of clamscan. > > > > That doesn't improve clamscan. > > (I can use a free commercial that is really fast) > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > Your problem is the startup time of clamscan, and has been discussed > endlessly on this list. Clamdscan avoids that startup time, by keeping it > running. Does your commercial scanner quit when it is finished, or is it > calling some background process that stays running? (Like clamdscan > does...) > > More recent (and older...) versions of clamscan also have faster startups, > so this is being worked on. > > Daniel T. Staal > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you > are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use > the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will > expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, > whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of > local copyright law. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
Thanks for clarification. I saw a similar thread on the Mandriva cooker mailing list. The commercial antivirus program isn't the demonized. I don't want to list the name on a mailing list. -- Thomas _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html