[clamav-users] Clamd.exe

[Ilana Olsen]

Marcy & Guys,
Mine says it needs to know what the default settin%s are and when I remove
the # to run the code it says it's confused as to what to do.  It's seems
like it should be simple.  I read the documentation and it doesn't give me
a clue what to do about it.  Maybe I missed something. Thanks for your
info.  I have Windows to and I think cyberespionage is at an all time high
for Microsoft products sometimes.  And it's somehow a zero login attack for
everybody involved.  So maybe it's not a perfect system but I love Windows.
TMI? I fully support improving everything to work well on Windows.
Thanks!
Jessica

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:26 PM G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <
clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, Marcy Rogers via clamav-users wrote:
>
> > Good Morning,
>
> Good evening. :)
>
> > I have Clamav on Windows Servers.  I am running clamd.exe in powershell
> > with this command, .\clamd.exe
> >
> > Do you need to put the config file in there for clamd.exe to read it?  I
> > understood that just running clamd.exe should read the config file.
>
> Most tools which use a configuration file will have a 'default'
> location (often more than one location) where they will look for a
> configuration file if they aren't told where to look for it in the
> command itself.  The clamd daemon has such a default but I don't know
> what it is for your system, you should be able to find documentation
> which tells you.  The same documentation will tell you how to specify
> the location of the file on the command line.
>
> > I am asking because the clamd.exe is not reading my config file because I
> > have excluded c:windows but it is still scanning c:\windows folder.
>
> To be clear, are we talking about the 'ExcludePath' directive?
>
> Sometimes tools are fussy about the precise syntax of configration
> options.  If your clamd is reading the configuration file which you
> think it is reading and you have properly set the exclusion in the
> configuration then you may need to experiment with the syntax.  As I
> don't use clamd on Windows I have no experience to offer but I'm sure
> that someone else here will.
>
> The clamd daemon does not itself scan things from the command line.
> Another tool such as clamdscan (which uses clamd to do the scan) or
> clamscan (which doesn't) will do that.  So if you run clamd.exe from
> the command line would not expect a scan to take place immediately,
> all that I'd expect to happen is that the daemon would be started.
>
> --
>
> 73,
> Ged.
>
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