As I understand it Sean, the mail scanner is the only daemon it runs. Full scans (much easier when you use the GUI) find files that are suspicious and quarantine them. Any deletion is manual and at the users risk; there is no active scan like on windows, it just finds files when you tell it to scan. That way resources aren't consumed. Simono On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 10:13 +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote: > On 16/10/10 09:51, Simon O'Riordan wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 09:44 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote: > >> Simono, I was just wondering. Has it caught any intrusions yet? > >> > >> Peter > > I did a full scan, and it found about 50 test files deliberately left > > there by Ubuntu to test Clam. > > Nothing 'hot' though, nothing at all. > > Where are you using it Simon? > > I was under the impression that its primary use was on mail servers for > scanning attachments, rather than on workstations. I guess if you share > files with other people you might want to ensure that you are not a > conduit for infected files, but other than that I wonder if it's worth > the overhead of running a scanner on a Linux desktop machine. > > Sean >
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