My experience is that ClamAV is limited by to 4 GB for the size of a file. Apparently it still uses 32-bit numbers (as opposed to addresses) even on 64-bit machines.
On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:42:22 -0800 Al Varnell <alvarn...@mac.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 03:48 PM, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) wrote: > > 2. Does it have the ability to scan large files (2 GBs+)? > > ClamAV currently has max file size limits around 2GB. > > I believe the default MaxFileSize is only 25MB, at least that's what > it is for the clamd daemon. It can be re-configured to scan larger > files, but "setting it too high may result in severe damage to the > system." You may be limited by the amount of RAM in your > configuration. There are other limits involving archive files and > PE's that should be adequately explained to you in > the /etc/clamd.conf file. > > > -Al- _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
