[clamav-users] performance degradation of clamscan

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

>> On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 10:47:18 -0500
>> "J.R. via clamav-users" <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>>
>> One way you *could* get an older .cvd file is to extract it from the
>> relevant ClamAV package available on many different linux distro's. Be
>> sure to disable freshclam though (obviously).

>Thanks for the suggestion; I was able to get some older signatures from
>some older rpm packages e.g. https://pkgs.org/download/clamav-db
>
>However, these were mostly main.cvd and so old that comparisons weren't all
>that useful unfortunately.
>
>I don't think the main apt-based distros have included signatures in their
>packages for quite some time AFAICS.

>> Paul Kosinski clamav-users
>> Mon Jul 8 12:48:47 EDT 2019
>>
>> We have a large number of old daily.cvd and daily.cld accumulated over
>> the past several years. I have kept them in case an update caused a
>> problem and I had to go back to make ClamAV work until the next update.
>> (I really should delete most of them!)
>>
>> Given some dates, I could upload a few to our Website and provide URLs.

On 09.07.19 12:05, Slarty Bartfast via clamav-users wrote:
>Thanks for the offer, that would be great. Ideally perhaps it'd be useful
>to see daily signatures from something like:
>
>* end of Dec 2017 / start of Jan 2018
>* end of Mar / start of Apr 2018
>* end of Jun / start of Jul 2018
>* end of Sep / start of Oct 2018
>* end of Dec 2018 / start of Jan 2019
>* end of Mar / start of Apr 2019
>
>Any samples covering roughly that period would be useful; doesn't have to
>be these specific dates / intervals.
>
>Very much appreciate if you could share links to these, thanks again.

just a few notes:

- newer clamav could be faster with new virus DB 

- clamdscan should be faster than clamscan (note the 'd' in clam'd'scan)
because it doesn't have to load whole virus database every time you execude
  it.


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