[clamav-users] Supressing false positives

2011-11-21 Thread Shobana Narayanaswamy
Hi: When I run ClamAV on a freebsd appliance, I get a bunch of false positives - that are primarily due to windows definitions that are not related to this OS. Is there a way to supress these or basically ignore these on the next run? Thanks in advance.

[clamav-users] Lightweight version of clamav

2011-11-21 Thread Shobana Narayanaswamy
Hi: I want to run ClamAV on a FreeBSD based appliance. However, it appears to have a performance impact that is significant (cpu/mem). Is there a lightweight version? Or can I possibly limit the virus definitions to only FreeBSD related and exclude the windows definitions - so it does not hav

[clamav-users] Disable specific virus signatures?

2011-11-22 Thread Shobana Narayanaswamy
Hi I am a novice at this...is there a way to disable virus signatures that are generating several false positives? Also, how do you read the virus definition database. thanks in advance ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wi

Re: [clamav-users] Disable specific virus signatures?

2011-11-22 Thread Shobana Narayanaswamy
Is there a way to delete a signature that you are not interested in? ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [clamav-users] Disable specific virus signatures?

2011-11-22 Thread Shobana Narayanaswamy
When I unpack daily.cvd for example, I see several files. Which one has the specific list of signatures that I could possibly delete (by placing the same name in the .ign2 file to whitelist or simply deleting it)? At 12:47 PM 11/22/2011, Shobana Narayanaswamy wrote: Is there a way to delete a

[clamav-users] Scanner memory and CPU usage

2011-11-22 Thread Shobana Narayanaswamy
Is there a way to reduce the memory footprint of the scanner? It appears to take about 220M in memory to load the virus db. Also, it takes up all of the machine's CPU while running. Is there a way to limit this (probably a general question and not specific to the scanner). __