gillian wrote: > OK, before you all shudder I appologise if this is blatently obvious and > staring me in the face. > > I have read the doco and searched google but I still am not able to > understand some fundamental things about clamav. > > 1. clamav daemon runs - what does it actually do? > 2. clamscan actually scans files, and I have set up a cron job to do > this, but none of the doc mentions having to do this. So what am I > missing here? > 3. What does clamav do with mail that is infected? I know clamscan can > either report it or move it depending on the command line parameters, > with without the move command, it just seems to report the files on the > command line. >
1) Runs daemonised to save reloading database each time. Used in conjunction with clamdscan. 2) Nothing. Setup is user dependant. 3) Identifies virii. The rest is system/integration dependant. If you don't mind me saying, these are very windowesque type questions. Recent convert by any chance? :) Matt _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
