Dear Christian,

It's normal that scanning with clamdscan takes a shorter time than clamscan because the virus databases is already loaded (since it's a daemon) and ready for action. For testing purposes(debugging, etc) you can use clamscan for all other purposes use clamdscan where you don't need to wait to load the virus database on each run.

On 2020-05-09 18:43, Christian wrote:

Hi altogether,

I´ve got a question regarding clamscan vs clamdscan.

My system is Linux/BodhiLinux 5.1.0 in a VM.
As antivirus-software I installed clamav:

sudo apt-get install clamav clamav-freshclam

Scanning procedure is good although a bit slow. So in addition to that I installed the service clamd:

sudo apt-get install clamav-daemon

Scanning is much faster now.

My question is: Is it alright to have  clamav and clamav-daemon installed alongside each other?
So that I can run  either "clamscan somefile"  or  "clamdscan somefile"?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Greetings.
Rosika

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