Re: [clamav-users] Improving Scan Speeds on OS X.4.11

2011-03-15 Thread Al Varnell
On 3/15/11 1:51 PM, "Chuck Swiger" wrote: > As Al noted, 10.4 is about six years old-- released April 2005, last patch was > 10.4.11 in Nov 2007. > True enough. Apple's rule of thumb is that they only support the current and one previous release which would have made 10.4 unsupported when 10.6 w

[clamav-users] Downloading daily.cvd seems to be corrupt [ignore last]

2011-03-15 Thread Mark Allan
...and of course, it's working again now - before my message even hits the mailing list. Sorry! Mark ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

[clamav-users] Downloading daily.cvd seems to be corrupt

2011-03-15 Thread Mark Allan
Hi folks, The daily.cvd file appears to be corrupt. The diff files are ok, so scripted updates still work fine, but for people who have scripted updates turned off (or have no defs to begin with) running freshclam fails. Mark [colossus] mark% freshclam -v Current working dir is /usr/local/sha

[clamav-users] daily.cvd Corruption

2011-03-15 Thread Al Varnell
Several users complained after initial installation of ClamXav that they were getting the following results: > main.cld is up to date (version: 53, sigs: 846214, f-level: 53, builder: sven) > Downloading daily.cvd [100%] > ERROR: Verification: Can't verify database integrity > Giving up on databas

Re: [clamav-users] Improving Scan Speeds on OS X.4.11

2011-03-15 Thread TR Shaw
On Mar 15, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Russ Tyndall wrote: > > On Mar 15, 2011, at 4:48 PM, TR Shaw wrote: > >> Look at your config file. You don't need to scan all more than probably >> 200KB of a file. > > So you are suggesting I use the MaxScanSize directive to limit scans to the > first 200KB of e

Re: [clamav-users] Improving Scan Speeds on OS X.4.11

2011-03-15 Thread Russ Tyndall
On Mar 15, 2011, at 4:48 PM, TR Shaw wrote: > Look at your config file. You don't need to scan all more than probably 200KB > of a file. So you are suggesting I use the MaxScanSize directive to limit scans to the first 200KB of each file? (i.e., add a line to clamd.conf: MaxScanSize 200KB).

Re: [clamav-users] Improving Scan Speeds on OS X.4.11

2011-03-15 Thread Russ Tyndall
On Mar 15, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Al Varnell wrote: > Add RAM if you haven't maxed it out yet. > > Purchase a faster, Intel Mac. Apple has not supported your OS since 2009 > and seems to have removed support for PPC Macs from a software development > standpoint. Shucks, I would be thrilled with an

Re: [clamav-users] Improving Scan Speeds on OS X.4.11

2011-03-15 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 13:51 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Russ Tyndall wrote: > > Because of the huge volume of data being scanned (70 Gb), the scan takes > > about 6 hours to complete. > > > > Is there a practical way to reduce the scan time? > > As Al noted, 10.4 i

Re: [clamav-users] Improving Scan Speeds on OS X.4.11

2011-03-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Russ Tyndall wrote: > Because of the huge volume of data being scanned (70 Gb), the scan takes > about 6 hours to complete. > > Is there a practical way to reduce the scan time? As Al noted, 10.4 is about six years old-- released April 2005, last patch was 10.4.11

Re: [clamav-users] Improving Scan Speeds on OS X.4.11

2011-03-15 Thread TR Shaw
Russ, Look at your config file. You don't need to scan all more than probably 200KB of a file. If you're using google; don't. It will help for email but probably will not help finding badness on a file server. Likewise with unofficials. Not all unofficials are appropriate for your application.

Re: [clamav-users] Improving Scan Speeds on OS X.4.11

2011-03-15 Thread Al Varnell
Add RAM if you haven't maxed it out yet. Purchase a faster, Intel Mac. Apple has not supported your OS since 2009 and seems to have removed support for PPC Macs from a software development standpoint. -Al- -- Al Varnell Mountain View, CA On 3/15/11 12:21 PM, "Russ Tyndall" wrote: > I'm ru

[clamav-users] Improving Scan Speeds on OS X.4.11

2011-03-15 Thread Russ Tyndall
Hello, I'm running clamav 0.965 on a G5 (1 processor) with OS X Server 10.4.11. Clamav runs as root. This machine is primarily used as a file server, with a mixture of OS X and Windows clients. A launchdaemon automatically kicks off an overnight scan by sending a command to clamdscan. Only di

Re: [clamav-users] Problem while combining clamav-milter 0.97 and sendmail

2011-03-15 Thread Nathan Gibbs
* Michael Wu wrote: > Thanks Richard ( lists-clamav ) to give me some hints that I can clean > the quarantined mails with the command "qtool.pl -d -Q > /var/spool/mqueue". On Fedora 13, the sendmail-doc rpm must be > installed to get "qtool.pl". Because I am not an expert in coding, > where can I g

Re: [clamav-users] Upgrade 0.95.3 to 0.97

2011-03-15 Thread Clovis Tristao
Em 14-03-2011 16:14, Brian Morrison escreveu: On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:15:09 -0300 Clovis Tristao wrote: How do I upgrade ClamAV version 0.95.3 package for Fedora 12 in ClamAV 0.97 tar.gz? There is a version 0.97 in yum package for this version of Fedora? It's fairly simple to do, you need to i

Re: [clamav-users] Problem while combining clamav-milter 0.97 and sendmail

2011-03-15 Thread Michael Wu
2011/3/13 : > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:13:42 +0800 > From: Michael Wu > Subject: [clamav-users] Problem while combining clamav-milter 0.97 and >        sendmail > To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > Message-ID: >         > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hello, > > I'm r