[clamav-users] ClamAV can't scan DVD-size ISO files

[Paul Kosinski]

Clamscan read the entire ISO, but didn't scan any of it!
I thought 21st century software was finally in the 64-bit era.

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~/Downloads/Linux/Knoppix> ls -l KNOPPIX_V7.7.1DVD-2016-10-22-EN.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 ime users 4660914176 Sep 12 19:40 KNOPPIX_V7.7.1DVD-2016-10-22-EN.iso

~/Downloads/Linux/Knoppix> clamscan --max-filesize=9999M  KNOPPIX_V7.7.1DVD-2016-10-22-EN.iso
WARNING: Numerical value for option max-filesize too high, resetting to 4G
KNOPPIX_V7.7.1DVD-2016-10-22-EN.iso: OK

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 6303545
Engine version: 0.99.2
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 0.00 MB
Data read: 4444.99 MB (ratio 0.00:1)
Time: 10.255 sec (0 m 10 s)