Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> * Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj@???> [20040305 03:29]: wrote:
>
>>
>>Markus Fischer wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:55:09PM +0200, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote :
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi Everybody ,
>>>>
>>>> Could you give me advise about exiscan and Clam AntiVirus ?!
>>>>I red some mailing list about Clam AntiVirus , and I afraid of Clam
>>>>because
>>>>I saw too many unexpected die abput it.
>>>>
>>>> Does any body using exiscan and Clam AntiVirus together and I also
>>>>want to ask How do you trust it ? or Does it reliable ?!
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm facing exactly this problem since a few days. Every 4 to six
>>> hours clamav suddenly dies away (in mainlog: timeout error) and that
>>> was it. I need to manually kill all clamd processes and restart it.
>>> I'm not very happy with it.
>>>
>>> Strange however, this exacrly not-touched-since-months setup worked
>>> before. I'm using debian testing and updating on a regular basis,
>>> however I haven't see clamav or exim updates for a while.
>>>
>>> I'm lost currently. Disabled clamav is too high a security risk
>>> however ... I don't know what I shold do :|
>>
>>
>>Do you have the ScanMail option enabled in clamav.conf ? If so, disable it.
>
>
> Why is that option a bad one? I've failed to understand this for all the
> time I run clamav. Please explain it to me, pleeease.
http://www.mail-archive.com/clamav-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06479.html
>
>
>
> -Wash
>
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