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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:14:34 -0600
From:      Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: F-Prot for BSD WorkStation
Message-ID:  <200403121114.34860.racerx@makeworld.com>
In-Reply-To: <4051EFC8.3060509@mac.com>
References:  <200403120926.04419.racerx@makeworld.com> <200403121036.45593.algould@datawok.com> <4051EFC8.3060509@mac.com>

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On Friday 12 March 2004 11:13 am, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > On Friday 12 March 2004 10:20 am, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> >> You might find that doing the full system scan takes up a lot of
> >> resources for some time (possibly hours), but that probably only matters
> >> if you happen to want to use the machine for something else then.
> >
> > I also use ClamAV.
> >
> > If resource utilization is an issue, the scanning strategy could be
> > changed to scan only email and /home areas frequently.  Full system scans
> > could be scheduled less frequently and during periods of low utilization.
>
> This is good advice, although one should beware that "/home" may comprise
> the vast majority of the storage space in use, particularly for companies,
> universities, and other organizations with lots of people.  9GB for the
> boot volume, ~75 GB for homedirs, and ~30GB for other files is what one
> fileserver of mine looks like.

I see where you all are going with this. Certainly makes sence to trim down 
the possible places to scan. 

Thank you all for the insight.

-- 
Best regards,
Chris



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