That's the strangest reply i ever received in a community lol. Fortunately my boss is not only paper and stuff, he is very technical. They are not VMs, they are physical PCs. We are required to get the ISO 27001 certification, so we need to install anti-viruses on all employees workstations. The on-access feature was something asked by my boss, not by the actual certificate.
Il giorno mer 24 lug 2024 alle ore 16:57 Gary R. Schmidt via clamav-users < clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> ha scritto: > On 25/07/2024 00:26, Giacomazzi Gabriele Antonio wrote: > > Hi, thanks for replying. > > The on-access feature it's required by the company i work for. > > I don't understand where the problem is since i've done the same > > configuration on all workstations, but in some of them there is this > > problem. > > > Oh, good, security by stupidity... > > Are they VMs? > Are they teeny-tiny VMs? > Are the VMs on an over-subscribed virtual-whatever server?? > > Is the VM server being hammered by a anti-virus scan at the time(s) you > are trying to do stuff? > > That's for real, the lusers up a few levels at $ORK require the use of > <INSERT NAME HERE> - not clamav - on all UNIX and Linux systems, and > they are moving from bare metal to VMs. > They wonder why the performance of the VMs drops into the gutter when > the server is periodically scanned. > And I do mean scanned, *every* file is opened and read, virtual disks > and all. > And sometimes, for no apparent reason, periodically means, "We've > finished that scan, let's do it again!" > Roll-on demob. > > Luckily our systems, which are used to develop the stuff they make money > from by selling &c, are invisible to lower beings. ;-) > > Cheers, > Gary B-) > > P.S. I did once suggest that they should move to clamav, being > oh-so-much-cheaper, but apparently the souls of some people's first-born > are tied to the continued use of <INSERT NAME HERE>, or the spirits of > the ancestors decreed that it must be so, or something. > No, they know nothing about how computers work. > Yes, they have tried to move AIX/HP-UX/Solaris workloads to Linux VMs, > and asked us perplexed questions as to why it does not work. > > P.P.S. Four more years and I qualify for a full pension. :-) > > P.P.P.S. No, I don't work for the ACM, this is my personal account, I'm > not that stupid. > _______________________________________________ > > Manage your clamav-users mailing list subscription / unsubscribe: > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-documentation > > https://docs.clamav.net/#mailing-lists-and-chat >
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