[clamav-users] Clamscan taking a very long time

[Michael Newman]

On Jan 3, 2020, at 00:00, G.W. Haywood wrote:

> Please define "suddenly".

Suddenly means that the scan on December 17th took about two hours:

  Time: 7569.856 sec (126 m 9 s)

and the next scan, on December 24th took about nine hours:

  Time: 35785.296 sec (596 m 25 s)

Both scans used:

  Engine version: 0.102.1

> In any case I'd want to know what all those errors are.

So would I. Both of the above scans had:

  Total errors: 49

I scanned again removing --quiet, but there’s no indication as to what those errors are. 

Today there were just 4 errors.

I’ve searched and looked through the ClamAV documentation but haven’t been smart enough to find a definition for "Total errors:". Does anyone know what it means?

> What has ClamAV found that you think shouldn't have been there?

Nothing. The only problem is that several scans took nine hours when, over the past couple of years, every scan has taken about two hours. Today’s scan, with --quiet removed, took about two and a half hours.

I’d like to know why the recent scans have taken so long.

Here’s the result of today’s scan:

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Fri Jan  3 04:44:09 +07 2020 Start clamscan
/Users/mnewman/Library/Mail/V7/40D4A1AB-4AC4-4D92-94A8-ACCBACCBB2CB/Deleted Messages.mbox/96546A05-A248-4911-AD12-0E19978E6803/Data/4/7/4/Messages/474077.partial.emlx: Heuristics.Phishing.Email.SpoofedDomain FOUND
/Users/mnewman/Library/Mail/V7/40D4A1AB-4AC4-4D92-94A8-ACCBACCBB2CB/Deleted Messages.mbox/96546A05-A248-4911-AD12-0E19978E6803/Data/4/7/4/Messages/474077.partial.emlx: Heuristics.Phishing.Email.SpoofedDomain FOUND
/Users/mnewman/Library/Mail/V7/40D4A1AB-4AC4-4D92-94A8-ACCBACCBB2CB/Deleted Messages.mbox/96546A05-A248-4911-AD12-0E19978E6803/Data/4/7/4/Messages/474077.partial.emlx: Heuristics.Phishing.Email.SpoofedDomain FOUND
/Users/mnewman/Library/testfile.txt: Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND
----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 6643097
Engine version: 0.102.1
Scanned directories: 249364
Scanned files: 694140
Infected files: 1
Total errors: 4
Data scanned: 70545.69 MB
Data read: 73821.73 MB (ratio 0.96:1)
Time: 9886.090 sec (164 m 46 s)
ClamAV scan finished: Fri Jan 3 07:28:55 +07 2020