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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