Hi Eric,
> Hi! I agree that it is not really useful to use ClamAV in DOS.
> By now, it has a list of millions of virus signatures of which
> basically all will be for Windows viruses anyway. You need more
> than 200 MB for a typical signature database for it and opening
> it takes ages before you can even scan the first file, not to
> mention the amount of RAM you will need. No surprise that there
> are background task versions of it for Windows and Linux, it
> would just take too long to start the scanner for a new file,
> you have to keep it running all the time to get enough speed.
I agree, but don't mix on-demand and on-access scanning. :-)
Cheers,
Robert
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