[clamav-users] help with my system please hybrid os does not update signatures

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi Colin,

On Fri, 21 Jan 2022, colin course via clamav-users wrote:

> ...
> memory 483 .4 mib
> ...

Your typing leaves a lot to be desired but I guess you've done your
best to give me the information that I asked for.  If we're meant to
read that as four hundred and eighty-three point 4 Mebibytes then it
probably means you will not be able to run ClamAV on your laptop.

The published database uses about twice as much memory as that.  The
operating system *can* use disc as a sort of poor-man's memory *but*
it's at least a thousand times slower to use, and if it works at all
that would probably make scanning so slow as to be unusable.

Since you're running Linux, and most of the published signatures are
intended to detect threats to Windows and other Microsoft products, it
might be possible to use a slimmed-down database which excludes those
signatures which aren't a direct threat to your system *but* it's not
something that I'd recommend, I don't know of such a database, and in
any case I wonder if you have the skills to use something other than
the vanilla database from the ClamAV team.

In short I think if you want to run ClamAV the best thing you can do is
start by getting a computer with enough memory.  My recommendation would
be one with at least 4 GBytes.  The processor speed is not as important,
but the slower it is the proportionally longer the scans will take.

Sorry to be the bringer of bad news.

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73,
Ged.