On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:25:50 -0800
Dennis Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Sheikji Nazirudeen wrote:
> > Hello:
> >   I am in the process of scanning HP and Sun servers. I am running into
> > issues wherein, it takes a long time for the scan to complete. Is there
> > any way apart from exculding certain file extensions to increase the
> > speed. I would be much interested in a software solution. Let me know.
> 
> This is an opportunity to ask the providers a related question: Does ClamAV
> use every pattern file record and all heuristics on every file it scans?

No, it doesn't. The signatures are grouped into six categories: Generic, PE
(windows exe/dll), OLE2 (MS Office, .msi), HTML, Mail, Graphics and ELF.
Every file is first scanned with its type specific sigs (if applicable) and
then with generic sigs.

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   oo    .....         Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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       //\   /\              Mon Nov 26 09:36:45 CET 2007
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