Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:31:53 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: F-Prot for BSD WorkStation Message-ID: <200403121131.53540.algould@datawok.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. **Very** good point. I often forget to consider the differences in perspective between "small" use users such as myself (me and a handful of data analysts at work + home use) and large network administrators. Andrew Gould
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