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

[Rick Graham]

Perhaps a useful feature would be an extra verbose option ("-vv") that
would print more clamscan status, like loading signatures.

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 7:32 PM G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <
clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:

> 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. :/
>
> --
>
> 73,
> Ged.
>
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