Re: [clamav-users] freshclam vs sudo freshclam

2018-09-05 Thread Al Varnell
A comment concerning Little Snitch. There's a good chance that the LS notification about a code signature violation. There is a known bug in LS 4 that finds problems in properly signed files. The notification gives you the opportunity to copy some information and forward it to LS for analysis. I

[clamav-users] freshclam vs sudo freshclam

2018-09-05 Thread Michael Newman
> As previously observed, depending on installation permissions, some of us > need sudo and others do not. Turns out this had nothing to do with permissions and everything to do with Little Snitch. For reasons that remain a mystery to me, sometime while I was away from home Little Snitch start

[clamav-users] freshclam vs sudo freshclam

2018-09-05 Thread Michael Newman
Al Varnell wrote: > As previously observed, depending on installation permissions, some of us > need sudo and others do not. I fully understand that. What I don’t understand is why the need for sudo would suddenly and spontaneously change from not needed to needed while I was away on vacation

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV benchmarking

2018-09-05 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, Jose Kalladanthyil wrote: I have been doing some benchmarking on ClamAv to workout the ideal configuration to get the fasted scan time. While you're doing that, you might also want to test detection efficiency, or at least read the list archives. -- 73, Ged. __

Re: [clamav-users] ScanOnAccess: ... (null) FOUND

2018-09-05 Thread Kretschmer, Jens
Hi Micah, did you have time to investigate those issues? Should I create bug reports for them or are those issues being tracked already? Do you need any more information from my side? Kr, Jens From: Micah Snyder (micasnyd) Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2018 2:39 PM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: R

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV benchmarking

2018-09-05 Thread Al Varnell
Well, for one thing the default maximum file size is normally set to 100MB, so files larger than that will simply be size checked and ignored. -Al- On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 02:06 AM, Jose Kalladanthyil wrote: > Hi, > I have been doing some benchmarking on ClamAv to workout the ideal > configurat

[clamav-users] ClamAV benchmarking

2018-09-05 Thread Jose Kalladanthyil
Hi, I have been doing some benchmarking on ClamAv to workout the ideal configuration to get the fasted scan time. I am seeing quite a varied results from the experiment. After running the scan multiple times on one particular zip file (25mb) I am seeing (Duration in SEC): 59, 40, 164, 39, 124. The

Re: [clamav-users] freshclam vs sudo freshclam

2018-09-05 Thread Al Varnell
As previously observed, depending on installation permissions, some of us need sudo and others do not. Anytime you see "Ignoring mirror xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (due to previous errors)" for all available mirrors, you must trash mirrors.dat or wait for some amount of time (unknown to me) in order to rec

Re: [clamav-users] freshclam vs sudo freshclam

2018-09-05 Thread Michael Newman
This is on a Mac with a MacPorts ClamAV installation. I previously reported that if I ran freshclam as root it failed, but worked if I ran it as me. Now I have the exact opposite situation. It fails if I run it as me, but works if I run as root. If I don’t use sudo, the first error I get is th