[clamav-users] OnAccessExtraScanning not working?

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, Nick via clamav-users wrote:

> New to clamav so please forgive me if I've missed something obvious.

There's lots to find if you dig deep enough for long enough. :)

> ... I enabled OnAccessExtraScanning as man clamd.conf says this
> "Toggles extra scanning and notifications when a file or directory
> is created or moved." Unfortunately when the eicar file is created
> (by using wget to download it) I don't see anything happen. I did
> read this feature was taken out due to a memory leak. Is it still
> removed or am I missing something else?

https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12048

After three years of no movement on this, I think there's a case for
updating the 'man' page to reflect the status quo.

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73,
Ged.