On 11/3/10 9:55 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Nov 3, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Yersinia wrote:
Out of curiosity, I actually downloaded both of these. Decided to start with
the ClamXav version 2 beta first, and it's been running for pushing a couple of
hours now! It's STILL scanning my G4 Quicksilver 867's 60 GB HDD. No infections
are listed yet but this came up at some point:
"Starting scan…
do not upload it somewhere!
My objects .crash.log"
I don't know WHEN that appeared because I had KVM'ed over to the Mini for awhile and just
noticed it when I came back to the Quicksilver...and I have no idea what it means, seeing
how there's nothing in the "Infection Name" area.
Make sure there isn't a dialog window waiting patiently where you can't find
it, or that it hasn't simply crashed...it IS a beta after all.
Anyhoo, is virus scanning SUPPOSED to take this long? I'm thinking I probably
won't bother with Sophos because I don't want to tie up my machines for hours.
Or maybe I'll try it on the iBook, but won't have any reference point to
compare speeds between Sophos and ClamXav. Dunno.
It's sort of like Spotlight...the first time takes forever, but both Sophos and
ClamXAv can be configured to do on Access scanning, which is considerably
faster; files are only ever scanned if the system touches them.
Nope, no hidden dialog boxes...at least none behind or below the main
window, and nothing in the Window menu anyway....anyplace else I should
be looking? ..and, hmmm...NOW it looks like it might have crashed.
Before when I wrote my prior post, I could see filenames whizzing by,
now it's stuck on one so that's why I think it might have crashed.
OK, thanks for the heads-up about a first time virus scan being like
Spotlight/taking forever. Maybe I will try Sophos after all. But... what
IS "Access scanning" and what do you mean by "files are only ever
scanned if the system touches thsm"? By "the system" do you mean OS X?
~Yersinia.
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