Thank you Micah! On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:48 PM, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > 1. Can it scan all files/data from a dirty S3 bucket, and place the files > into a clean bucket? > I don’t have experience working with S3 buckets. ClamAV works with files > on a filesystem. ClamAV’s ability to move files during scanning is limited > to moving dirty files, not moving clean files. For example: > https://askubuntu.com/questions/171441/how-to- > quarantine-or-delete-infected-files-with-clamav In theory you could use > a technology such as S3FS to mount your S3 bucket as a file system and then > scan the files as such. However, I make no guarantees about how well that > will work. > > 2. Does it have the ability to scan large files (2 GBs+)? > ClamAV currently has max file size limits around 2GB. > > 3. Is it compatible with both Linux and Windows? > Yes, however certain features (e.g. on access scanning) are limited to > Linux. > > 4. Does it scale horizontally, adding more scanning capacity? > It depends on what you mean by “Scale horizontally”. The clamd component > (a daemon process) may be used in conjunction with clamdscan (a process > that interacts with clamd to scan with multithreading. I’m guessing, based > on your question about S3 that you’re talking about the idea of hosting > clamav services in the cloud and scaling up the number of instances to > handle scan requests. In theory, if you could mount your S3 bucket and if > clamav does handle scanning these files well, you could write a wrapper > around clamdscan to accept scan requests in a scalable architecture. That > said, I still make no guarantees about the scan performance and of course > this cloud-scaling wrapper tech is not provided as a part of ClamAV. > > 5. Does it give the user the ability to load their own virus signatures (in > addition to pulling signatures down from vendor's site)? > Yes. > > > Micah Snyder > Software Engineer > Talos Intelligence > Cisco Systems, Inc. > > This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole > use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure > by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or > authorized to receive for the recipient), please contact the sender by > reply email and delete all copies of this message. > > On Nov 20, 2017, at 2:34 PM, Brian Turner <brian.turner@blue-star- > software.com<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a few questions about ClamAV. > > 1. Can it scan all files/data from a dirty S3 bucket, and place the files > into a clean bucket? > 2. Does it have the ability to scan large files (2 GBs+)? > 3. Is it compatible with both Linux and Windows? > 4. Does it scale horizontally, adding more scanning capacity? > 5. Does it give the user the ability to load their own virus signatures (in > addition to pulling signatures down from vendor's site)? > > -- > > > Brian Turner > Blue Star Software > p: 703.968.1974 m: 301.980.6657 a: 8500 Leesburg Pike #403 Vienna, VA > 22182 > s: http://www.blue-star-software.com e: brian.turner@blue-star- > software.com<mailto:[email protected]> > > > Listed as a "Best Place to Work" by the Washington Business Journal in 2016 > and 2017! > *Read our company reviews on Glassdoor > <https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Blue-Star-Software-Reviews-E896732.htm> > to > learn more!* > _______________________________________________ > clamav-users mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > 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 > [email protected] > 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 -- Brian Turner Blue Star Software p: 703.968.1974 m: 301.980.6657 a: 8500 Leesburg Pike #403 Vienna, VA 22182 s: http://www.blue-star-software.com e: [email protected] Listed as a "Best Place to Work" by the Washington Business Journal in 2016 and 2017! *Read our company reviews on Glassdoor <https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Blue-Star-Software-Reviews-E896732.htm> to learn more!* _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected] 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
