Re: virus scan files uploading to ifs

Hello Brian,

Am 30.11.2023 um 03:27 schrieb Bdietz400 <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx>:

I looked into this a while back
The latest clamav has a requirement for rust. I do recall grabbing an AIX version before the need for rust and it recall it working.
Been a while though and I’ve forgot all the details

Additional thought: There's clamscan and clamdscan in clamav.

Clamscan uses a lot of CPU and RAM to parse the pattern files into "working storage", just to throw it all away if done.

Clamdscan relies on a "daemon" task (clamd) to be started at IPL time. The latter is loading and parsing the patterns *once* and providing a "socket" (unix, tcp) for clamdscan to connect to.

Clamdscan greatly speeds up overall scanning time and lessens CPU load trendemously. There's no benefit in terms of memory usage, though. But for a paging platform like IBM i on fairly recent (aka capable) hardware, this might not matter too much.

:wq! PoC