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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:13:44 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: F-Prot for BSD WorkStation
Message-ID:  <4051EFC8.3060509@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <200403121036.45593.algould@datawok.com>
References:  <200403120926.04419.racerx@makeworld.com> <4051E360.9080109@mac.com> <200403121036.45593.algould@datawok.com>

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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.

-- 
-Chuck



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