[clamav-users] Why does clamscan take so long searching?

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Fri, 22 Nov 2019, Rick Graham via clamav-users wrote:

> I inadvertently miss-typed the commandline and I was surprised clamscan
> executed for 48 seconds.  How was clamscan spending its time?
>
> # clamscan ==help
> ...

You really need to understand how ClamAV works in order to use it
sensibly and effectively.  There's documentation at

http://www.clamav.net/documents

In your example clamscan was not "searching".  It spent the 48 seconds
loading signatures; see

http://www.clamav.net/documents/scanning

If you'd done that on one of my systems it would have been more like
four minutes. :/

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73,
Ged.