From: Adam T. W. <ad...@mo...> - 2008-12-18 20:45:00
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On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 14:28 -0500, Josh Wieder wrote: > Try focusing your scan on files and folders most likely to be > infected ... temps, etc. Clam is a bit of a resource hog. > jerry wrote: > > Help...cannot run clam win first time it took 3 hours and gave me > > error mess and the second time after I uninstalled it reinstalled > > it ,reboot it and it ran for 8 hours yesterday and still didnt finis > > so I decided to stop it.any suggestions thanks...Jerry Is three hours unreasonable to scan an entire machine? All of our workstations perform a scheduled clamscan of memory and the entire C:\ volume every night. It seems to take ~2.0 hours on average. But for a 2GB RAM box with a ~200GB hard drive that seems reasonable to me. The messy output about unscannable files (permission denied) is annoying, but we just check the ERRORLEVEL after the scan and perform notification is something was found. I don't see how anything can trawl every file in a system and not be a "resource hog". |