Hi,

You are doing something wrong or your math is horribly bad. My average time in qmail-scanner-queue with Kaspersky is 0.209551 seconds.

(and actually, clamav is a little faster and freeer (is that a word?), taking 0.127474 seconds per scan on a comparable machine, of course I have no idea on the file sizes scanned, just parsing the logs)

Taken from thousands of lines like this:

16/06/2003 18:41:41:5607: all finished. Total of 0.082817 secs
16/06/2003 18:41:45:5625: all finished. Total of 1.148456 secs
16/06/2003 18:41:45:5627: all finished. Total of 1.178923 secs
16/06/2003 18:41:46:5655: all finished. Total of 0.78068 secs
16/06/2003 18:41:50:5688: all finished. Total of 0.082702 secs
16/06/2003 18:41:50:5716: all finished. Total of 0.121021 secs
16/06/2003 18:41:58:5738: all finished. Total of 0.051963 secs
16/06/2003 18:42:05:5791: all finished. Total of 0.071962 secs
16/06/2003 18:42:17:5845: all finished. Total of 1.563344 secs
16/06/2003 18:42:18:5852: all finished. Total of 0.573719 secs
16/06/2003 18:42:18:5848: all finished. Total of 1.628198 secs
16/06/2003 18:42:20:5869: all finished. Total of 2.945685 secs
16/06/2003 18:42:24:5934: all finished. Total of 0.124624 secs
16/06/2003 18:42:24:5935: all finished. Total of 0.209551 secs
16/06/2003 18:42:24:5970: all finished. Total of 0.226913 secs

Regards,

Rick


Ryan Finnie wrote:


Okay, I've been a bit out of touch lately, so here we go...  Yes, turns
out the AVP version I was running was horribly out of date.  Now I've
figured out how to use kavdaemon 4.0.3.1 with Q-S.  But first, a little
background:

The good:
* Kaspersky's linux client is great at doing it's job, once you set it up
correctly.
* kavdaemon is FAST, incredibly fast, very accurate and feature-filled
(can scan mbox groups, parse mime, read a couple dozen types of compressed
files, etc).  I've actually commented out &deconstruct_msg in q-s to save
time; all it does now is scan the one mime message.
* Virus updates are very up-to-date.  It caught bugbear.b (tanatos) on one
of my machines almost immediately after it was out in the wild.
* It's relatively cheap, and they give free trials if you ask.

And the bad:
* The universal installer is crap.  I just end up extracting the tarball
and manually moving stuff around.
* They have a tendency to change stuff around (flags, etc) whenever they
feel like it.  Most people have seemed to give up on the daemon because of
this, but not I.
* Documentation is often misleading.
* Logging is not too verbose.

Now, how to actually use kavdaemon.  Start kavdaemon by doing:
  /opt/AVP/kavdaemon -I0 -Y /var If you want to be able to scan more
directories beside /var through the daemon, you can edit
/opt/AVP/etc/defUnix.prf and put the directories that you want under
Object->Names, then just do "/opt/AVP/kavdaemon -I0 -Y" instead.  Be sure
to prefix the directory with a *, which says the directory is "enabled".
Oh, and this took me awhile to figure out -- "/" will NOT be accepted in
either location as a valid allowable directory.  If you want kavdaemon to
be able to scan anywhere on the filesystem, you must specify all of the
top-level directories in defUnix.prf.  Yes, it's annoying.  Personally
though, I just use the virus scanner on mail servers, so /var is the only
directory I need to scan within, so it works out.

As for q-s itself, here's a modified version of the code I first released:

http://www.finnie.org/stuff/q-s_avpdaemon.txt

Once this is set up, the scans are fast... average 2 seconds per message.

RF




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