From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:456f09d8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Very slow is an understatement.  On my iBook G4 1.3/40G, half-full, it
> takes nearly a half hour just to enumerate what it's going to scan!
> (Normal finder; swipe-select everything default-visible under the startup
> volume.
>
> Try to select your boot disk, and you get, 'Scanning the "whole startup
> disk" "causes problems."'  Imagine how this would fly
on the PC side!  Ah,
> naivete'.
>
> My heavy Macaholic friends scan periodically to catch PC virsuses in
> attachments.
>
> I wonder whether it catches the Morris worm and other xxNIX classics.

It looks like scanning the whole startup disk is prohibited in ClamXav
1.0.5 ( prohibition started with 0.9.0 )

http://www.markallan.co.uk/clamXav/index.php?page=FAQ#7

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You can scan an entire drive using the selection procedure

http://www.markallan.co.uk/clamXav/index.php?page=FAQ#7a
'When you click "Choose what to scan...", select your hard drive but don't
click "OK" yet. What you have to do is hold down the command key
(the one with the Apple symbol) and then select everything you see in
there. It should look something like this. Then click "OK" and
continue as normal.'


I never tried the command-line ClamAV that the ClamXav shell integrates so
I don't know if it would be any faster or not.

http://www.clamav.net/abstract.html#pagestart

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