Re: [Clamwin-users] "resident protection" for ClamWin?

[Mike C. <m.c...@ac...>]

On-access scanning is coming in a release due out early next year.

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Matthew Palmer wrote:

>Just downloaded ClamWin 0.36, and I'm happily impressed, which is rare for
>a windows program.  One thing I'm going to have trouble overcoming, though,
>in introducing this to my organisation, is the lack of a "resident
>protection" feature (Vet's terminology).  Basically, any time a file is
>opened, the AV system scans it and reports if there's a problem with it. 
>Unfortunately clamav seems a little slow on startup, but I presume that a
>resident scanner would have very little startup time and just hang around in
>memory.
>
>I am willing to put my next subscription to Vet into this (and possibly a
>bit more on top, just for good measure).  It'll only be a couple of hundred
>dollars, but if someone was thinking about adding this feature in, here's
>your motivation.  <grin>  Anyone else care to make a similar pledge to
>really get this feature happening?  It's common enough in the feature
>tracker...
>
>Other things that I'd like to see (mostly also in the feature tracker
>already):
>
>* An MSI installer.  I *need* automated installation.
>
>* A "low-priority" scan mode, where the scanner doesn't take more than a few
>percent of CPU and HDD I/O.  Might have to hack that into ClamAV proper, and
>it's not a real high priority, but it'd be nice to have if it's simple to
>implement.  I guess a naive implementation just could be to sleep for 2
>seconds after scanning each file or something...
>
>- Matt
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