I might be remembering wrong, but I believe there was work done to address Clam's large filesize handling issues in the year between 0.99.2 and 0.99.3.
Have you tested out the beta yet to see if your needs have been addressed? On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Paul Kosinski <clamav-us...@iment.com> wrote: > To continue... > > Since this is the year 2017, and 64-bit computing has been around for > years, I decided to see how a Windows AV package would handle my ISO > which is "too big" for ClamAV. > > I copied it over to a 64-bit Win7 machine with lots of RAM (32 GB), and > scanned it with Microsoft "Security Essentials". The result? > > 1. It didn't complain about the size of the file. > > 2. It scanned 11424 items *within* the ISO! > > I can understand (sort of) that ClamAV can't scan inside some archive > formats. (But then why did --debug report that the ISO module was "on"?) > > But I can't understand why ClamAV can't handle files bigger than 4 GB. > Especially now that 64-bit OSes are common, and 64-bit CPUs are totally > mainstream. > _______________________________________________ > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
