Re: [Clamav-users] LibClamAV Warning: Unknown encoding type

2004-07-03 Thread Nigel Horne
On Saturday 03 Jul 2004 6:05 am, Ken wrote: > Hi, > LibClamAV Warning: Unknown encoding type "quoted -printable" > LibClamAV Warning: Unknown encoding type "plain" > > Does that mean those messages were not scanned? No it means that a message has been sent that does not confirm to the relavant st

[Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Recall that I was asking the list recently how to deal with getting 400 MB a day of the zafi.b virus in my mailbox. I can filter out my mailbox with a procmail script, followed by using clamscan and procmail, but my hosting service isn't yet able to do it for me. It turns out that they had clamav

Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Michael D. Crawford wrote: Recall that I was asking the list recently how to deal with getting 400 MB a day of the zafi.b virus in my mailbox. I can filter out my mailbox with a procmail script, followed by using clamscan and procmail, but my hosting service isn't yet able to do it for me. It turn

Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Ryan Thompson
Michael D. Crawford wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Is there a way to filter out the most obvious viruses without using > very much CPU time, so that the processing required to scan all the > remaining messages with clamav wouldn't be so great? To the clamav devel team: how does the scanner determi

Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:40:24 -0700 (PDT) "Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It turns out that they had clamav working in their > email processor for a little while, but had to disable > it because it used so much CPU time that the host > wasn't able to keep up with its load. Ironic

Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Nigel Horne
On Sunday 04 Jul 2004 12:00 am, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:40:24 -0700 (PDT) > > "Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It turns out that they had clamav working in their > > email processor for a little while, but had to disable > > it because it used so much CPU time

Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Cody Baker
I would like to append to this that, cheap boxes are good, but they should be cheap boxes with fast harddrives, or some type of memory file system scheme. My experience has been that a fast hard drive will drastically increase the scanning performance. And as mentioned earlier, clamdscan. T

Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Cody Baker wrote: I would like to append to this that, cheap boxes are good, but they should be cheap boxes with fast harddrives, or some type of memory file system scheme. My experience has been that a fast hard drive will drastically increase the scanning performance. And as mentioned earli

Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 at 14:40:24 -0700, Michael D. Crawford wrote: [...] > It turns out that they had clamav working in their > email processor for a little while, but had to disable > it because it used so much CPU time that the host > wasn't able to keep up with its load. As it has been already w

Re: [Clamav-users] Reducing CPU consumption?

2004-07-03 Thread Michael D. Crawford
> I > think that you should get more details about their > setup and then you > can search documentation and mailing lists of those > particular programs. I don't know how they had it set up. I'll ask. I don't normally do any kind of administration of the hosting service's server. I'm just tryi

[Clamav-users] Upgraded kernel causing problems

2004-07-03 Thread Steve Lenti
I am currently running a RH9 system with 2.4.21 kernel.  I have upgraded the kernel to 2.4.26, but clamav will not work.  I have recompiled under the new kernel but for some reason I cannot get clamdscan or clamscan to work.  I keep getting “Segmentation fault” in the log file.  Is there an