question about clamscan / clamdscan

[squalou]

Hi,

this is more a question than an issue, I didn't know where to submit it.
ClamTK being unmaintained I'm looking for alternatives for the future and yours is promising.

Unfortunately I didn't manage to check myself, so here's the question.

Is it be possible to use clamdscan instead of clamscan for manual scans using UI ? By a setting somewhere.

(I have to use clamdscan --fdpass --multiscan to have decent perfs, and never found the option on clamtk, I manually patched the perl script underneath :) )

thanks !

[ivangabriele]

Hi @squalou and sorry for the late reply,

That's actually touching one of my potential pain points, which I won't solve yet in the next release.

In ClamAV Desktop I orchestrate clamscan to scan files but my caveat is that it loads the virus definitions each time it's run. clamd daemon seems to have an underlying strategy to somehow preload these definitions which improves the scanning boot time. Even though for large scans, listing file is definitely what takes ALOT of time (another pain I plan on optimizing in futures releases, if possible).

Now, in the context of running from the CLI without any GUI, and with an existing clamd daemon service running, clamdscan is preferable over clamscan to run you scans since it will leverage its optimizations ^^.