On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to disable official virus database? I would like to use only > custom database. Thanks for info.
Before I retired nearly a year ago I ran for several years an instance of clamd on the incoming mail servers at work that should only detect macro's in office files. These macro's are detected by build-in heuristics in clamd so I didn't need virus databases at all for these clamd instances but I didn't want to run clamd in the ultimate edge case using no databases. (I didn't even test if I could start clamd without databases.) I created a database dirctory containing only a custom database with a single definition to detect the "eicar-virus". I created a customized clamd config file pointing to this nearly empty database dirctory. And I started these instances of clamd with the commandline option to use this customized config file. The overhead involved with using a single -actually not needed- eicar definition was acceptable to me. So yes, at that time, it was possible to run at least clamd without the official virus database. I only used this with clamd, not with clamscan. And I didn't test this with the current clamav version. Regards, Kees. -- Kees Theunissen Email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
