Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Rob MacGregor
On 4/28/05, Chris de Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ClamAV 0.83 from dag.wieers.com > CentOS 3.3 (A.K.A RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3) > Kernel 2.4.28 > > I have a full system scan cron job. We have a 1.25TB Samba server that > causes the load average to go to 5+. When that happens the users n

[Clamav-users] db search error

2005-04-28 Thread Joanna Roman
Link: http://clamav-du.securesites.net/cgi-bin/clamgrok?virus=Trojan.Lowzone-37&search-type=contains&case-sensitivity=No&database=daily&database=main&display=database&display=virus&.submit=&.cgifields=database&.cgifields=case-sensitivity&.cgifields=search-type&.cgifields=display Try searching Troj

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Chris de Vidal
Todd Lyons said this while chewing gum: > If the scan is occurring during normal business hours, then yeah, you > need to nice the heck out of it to keep it from sucking away > performance. If you know a bit about c, you could add a commandline > option --delay=x where x is the number of milliseco

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:01:24 -0700 Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > ClamAV 0.90 will support the NodalCore hardware accelerator: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=458047 > > > With hw acceleration my old Athlon 1200 was able to scan 2GB of > > d

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Kurt Buff
Tomasz Kojm wrote: > ClamAV 0.90 will support the NodalCore hardware accelerator: > > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=458047 > With hw acceleration my old Athlon 1200 was able to scan 2GB of > data in one minute. 2gb in one minute, ceterus paribus, means roughly 8.5 hours per ter

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Stephen Gran
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 06:15:17PM -0300, René Bellora said: > clamdscan is way faster Not necessarily. Single file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ clamscan F5D5010.exe F5D5010.exe: OK --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 33876 Engine version: 0.84rc2 Scanned directories: 0 Scanned files:

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Gian Carlo
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:18:41PM -0400, Chris de Vidal wrote: > Have you ever lied, no matter the color? I have. Have you ever stolen > anything, no matter the value? I have. Have you ever lusted? I have. > Jesus said whoever looks at a woman with lustful intent has already > committed adu

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Jason Haar
Tomasz Kojm wrote: >With hw acceleration my old Athlon 1200 was able to scan 2GB of data in >one minute. > > 2Gb in one minute!!! That's pretty impressive - I wouldn't have thought you could do a directory listing of that much data in one minute (assuming it's not a single file of course!) --

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Todd Lyons
Chris de Vidal wanted us to know: >Is our situation that foreign? I was half expecting someone to tell me >"We have a 5TB FTP server and can scan it all under 40 minutes with .25 >extra load average! You just have to do this..." Most people with stuff that large have a three teir system: 1) AV

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Chris de Vidal
Morgan Smith said this while chewing gum: > Do compiler options help? YMMV but if I'm looking for speed I'll > compile from source or create an RPM from the SRPM, and I'll add some > optimizations: > ./configure CFLAGS=-O3 -march=pentium4 > > The man page for gcc may provide more insight. OK I'll

Re: [Clamav-users] curl/wget related question

2005-04-28 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:45:20 -0700 (PDT) Joanna Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi I am adding some kind of web scanning code into a > http proxy. Somewhere in the code where the proxy is > ready to send the HTTP GET request to the server, I > added some code to first download the URL and scan

[Clamav-users] curl/wget related question

2005-04-28 Thread Joanna Roman
Hi I am adding some kind of web scanning code into a http proxy. Somewhere in the code where the proxy is ready to send the HTTP GET request to the server, I added some code to first download the URL and scan it before letting the proxy to send the GET request out. I was using something like system

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Morgan Smith
Chris de Vidal wrote: >ClamAV 0.83 from dag.wieers.com >CentOS 3.3 (A.K.A RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3) >Kernel 2.4.28 > >I have a full system scan cron job. We have a 1.25TB Samba server that >causes the load average to go to 5+. When that happens the users notice >and I must kill the script.

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:09:55 -0400 (EDT) "Chris de Vidal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Fretwell said this while chewing gum: > > Scan on an evening when your users are gone? > > Thanks for the fast reply! > > A 1.25TB Samba server takes several days to do a full scan with > clamscan. Clam

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Chris de Vidal
Matt Fretwell said this while chewing gum: > Surely you're not doing a full scan each time, are you? Yeah, just like the large Windows boxen we run. It's a corporate requirement that we scan daily but clamscan is just too slow for a daily scan so I run it weekly. It's a decent compromise; I'd co

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Matt Fretwell
René Bellora wrote: > clamdscan is way faster Only on a frequent stop/start type scenario. (Unless things have changed). For an extended duration scan, any difference would be negligible. Matt ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Matt Fretwell
Chris de Vidal wrote: > > Scan on an evening when your users are gone? > > Thanks for the fast reply! > > A 1.25TB Samba server takes several days to do a full scan with > clamscan. Surely you're not doing a full scan each time, are you? How often do you scan the system? I can't answer on

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread René Bellora
Chris de Vidal wrote: ClamAV 0.83 from dag.wieers.com CentOS 3.3 (A.K.A RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3) Kernel 2.4.28 I have a full system scan cron job. We have a 1.25TB Samba server that causes the load average to go to 5+. When that happens the users notice and I must kill the script. I've even

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Chris de Vidal
Matt Fretwell said this while chewing gum: > Scan on an evening when your users are gone? Thanks for the fast reply! A 1.25TB Samba server takes several days to do a full scan with clamscan. CD Have you ever lied, no matter the color? I have. Have you ever stolen anything, no matter the valu

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Matt Fretwell
Chris de Vidal wrote: > Ideas? Scan on an evening when your users are gone? Matt ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

[Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Chris de Vidal
ClamAV 0.83 from dag.wieers.com CentOS 3.3 (A.K.A RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3) Kernel 2.4.28 I have a full system scan cron job. We have a 1.25TB Samba server that causes the load average to go to 5+. When that happens the users notice and I must kill the script. I've even reniced it to 19 wit

RE: [Clamav-users] How are downloader viruses encountered ??

2005-04-28 Thread sk3tch
Actually, their primary distribution is via Windows file sharing (i.e. ports 135, 139, 445) via SDBot, Robobot, RBot, etc. variants. The primary reason they're called "Downloader" is because once on the system they unpack their payload, connect to an IRC server for remote control, and download add

Re: [Clamav-users] How are downloader viruses encountered ??

2005-04-28 Thread Joanna Roman
--- Christoph Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joanna Roman wrote: > > Can anybody tell me how downloader viruses are > > encountered ? Is it via http browsing and adware > ?? > > > > Not only - sometimes they are spammed through mail > or distributed > through P2P networks - you can find th

Re: [Clamav-users] How are downloader viruses encountered ??

2005-04-28 Thread Christoph Cordes
Joanna Roman wrote: Can anybody tell me how downloader viruses are encountered ? Is it via http browsing and adware ?? Not only - sometimes they are spammed through mail or distributed through P2P networks - you can find them almost everywhere in many different flavours. -- Best regards, Christ

Re: [Clamav-users] How are downloader viruses encountered ??

2005-04-28 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:43:05 -0700 (PDT) Joanna Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:11:17 -0700 (PDT) > > Joanna Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Can anybody tell me how downloader viruses are > > > encountered ? Is

[Clamav-users] Re: How are downloader viruses encountered ??

2005-04-28 Thread René Berber
Joanna Roman wrote: [snip] > Serious answers only. You must be tired. Take a break > man ! :) Serious, how are they encountered ? They come in mail. Is that what you wanted to know? -- René Berber ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html