On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote: > On Mar 9, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Timothy Legge wrote: >> The only question now is whether there is a noticable difference in >> speed between clamdscan and clamscan? > > They should scan files at the same speed, but it takes clamscan longer to get > started since it has to load up the virus definitions. > > The amount of extra time is on the order of a few seconds for a reasonably > modern machine, so it's not a great concern for an entire filesystem > partition scan, but do you want to use clamdscan or equivalent for mail > processing....
No, the machine in question will only ever scan its own files. Other than policy there is unlikely to be any reason to ever have a virus scanner. Thanks for the speed clarification Tim _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
