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ClamAV fails to scan for viruses in emails [CLAWS MAIL]

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – 0x001A4 wrote:If you're the only user on your system you can run clamav as your user by changing User in the clamd.confThis works fine, however I would rather not expose all of my user data like this. I already configured Clam to only use signed database files, however I will still prefer clamav user with limited privileges to be used. MatejLach https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=49969 2012-10-20T17:31:18Z (HowTos)

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Should I use ClamAV? 31 weeks 5 days ago

I installed ClamAV and PHP-ClamAV on my Ubuntu server.

Everything works... But it is extremely slow. Even when I just call basic functions without scanning a file.

falconindy wrote:brcm80211 no longer exists -- it's been renamed brcmsmac as of 2.6.39. Most of those modules will be found automatically.That did the trick for me!Thanks so much!Next time I should just read Kernel Release Notes and I will be fine :-)

MatejLach https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=49969

2011-06-23T17:00:57Z

I haven't used LibreOffice for a while now and I know that OOo and LO are both generally a bit "slow", but my LO is behaving strangely even when considering that, because it starts pretty quickly and then when I start typing and press space, LO freezes totally and after around 5-7 seconds it is normally responsive and usable again.

Limit clamav to one process 13 weeks 4 days ago

I'm only running on a low memory system so would like to run only one clamd, but i have googled for hours trying to find the answer with no luck. I tried clamscan instead but it takes far too long to scan each email.

I installed clamav from the yum repos with yum install -y clamav and havent changed any default settings.

Does anyone know how to limit the clamd to run only once?

My ubuntu version is 12.04.

I have installed clamav as root user using the below commands.

apt-get install clamav apt-get install clamav-daemon

But when I use the below command

clamd PING

It gives below error message.

ERROR: initgroups() failed

Am I missed anything?

Repeatedly in my logs:

ClamAV-clamd: Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: Connection refused

It seems that clamav-daemon keeps dying. Any idea what might cause this to happen? I last started it a few hours ago and just started it again. It's fully up to date as is Amavis.

Are you using systemd?What's the output of 'groups' for your user?

karol https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=25522

2013-05-28T14:27:10Z

I installed ClamAV via Terminal with:

sudo apt-get install clamav

but how can I scan for viruses?

Nope.  Many "AUR helpers" do this though.  In my limited experience yaourt seems to be one that handles this seemlessly, but I'd say it comes with some costs of hiding what is doing from the user.

Trilby https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=54694

2012-09-20T17:48:41Z