Topic: ClamAV scan - Does it take so long for everyone else?

[haymann]

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 71085
Engine version: 0.88.4
Scanned directories: 46139
Scanned files: 196579
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 27349.12 MB
Time: 27316.087 sec (455 m 16 s)

Does that seem like a reasonable time? It seems like it is pretty slow to me...
Ryan

[dmajwool]

I'm getting the same rates as you.  It is a long time, but it seems that's normal.  There was some discussion on the clamAV user list recently and the advice was that clam is slower than, say, norton because clam does a byte-by-byte analysis of the entire file.
Faster cpu machines don't take so long
HTH, David.

[remstrus]

Hey

my data is as follows, but my data is quite small.

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 71376
Engine version: 0.88.4
Scanned directories: 12113
Scanned files: 28580
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 1481.85 MB
Time: 1970.165 sec (32 m 50 s)

[william_syd]

Code: [Select]

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 71494
Engine version: 0.88.4
Scanned directories: 17569
Scanned files: 98449
Infected files: 157
Data scanned: 15992.16 MB
Time: 23471.916 sec (391 m 11 s)

[crazybob]

This has quite a bit of data

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 70956
Engine version: 0.88.4
Scanned directories: 47694
Scanned files: 735684
Infected files: 20
Data scanned: 105135.37 MB
Time: 62638.519 sec (1043 m 58 s)

Bob

[piran]

Here it takes one 3.4GHz CPU over 5 days to complete the scan...
until the ibays are excluded: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=34047.0

[haymann]

Thanks! The long time and the HUGE emails that I get from Clam made me wonder if something was wrong... I appreciate all of you input!
Ryan

[mercyh]

Pentium Dual Core 2.8gh w/2gb RAM

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 71517
Engine version: 0.88.4
Scanned directories: 13704
Scanned files: 35755
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 2432.01 MB
Time: 1182.510 sec (19 m 42 s)