[clamav-users] Clamdscan is scanning files larger than 4GB

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Mon, 18 Jan 2021, Michael Kyriacou via clamav-users wrote:

> Hello! I am using clamav version 0.102.4, on Ubuntu 20.04.
> I configured the max file size and Maxscansize to be 10M. When I scan files
> larger than that, it returns with an OK, telling me that it scanned.
>
> It seems to me that clamdscan is completely ignoring this configuration. Is
> there something I’m doing wrong?

Restart clamd.

Time how long it takes to scan a very large file.

Set the limits ten times higher and restart clamd again.

Time the same scan of the same file.

Do the times tell us anything?

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73,
Ged.