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Im not sure if its supposed to be like this, but enabling the clamav engine spikes the CPU and resource usage to 25% CPU and 350 megabytes of memory from 0-1% CPU and 50 megabytes of memory, is it always like this? the update button always says "up to date" even after reinstalling the product a lot of times and I have no folder that contains error logs.

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Hello EmanuelJac,

One of our most knowledgeable Administrators, Rob. Turner, just commented on why ClamAV might temporarily cause system resources to increase, here's what he had to say on the subject.

The clam av engine loads it's full virus definitions signature set into memory:  which takes from  100 to 600mb.  add to that the clam  scanning engine  and virus definitions updater and clam alone  can in a worst case  scenario use  in the the 700mb  of memory range.   Currently we have extra experimental blue keep preventative signatures out for a worm we're expecting that are inflating the  usual virus definitions set size.

You can try updating the clam av definitions set  via the update button in the gui and running a full scan overnight.  That might get you a smaller more concise set of definitions that'll take less memory  and get you over the initial performance hump of building the local cache up.

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6 hours ago, ritchie58 said:

Hello EmanuelJac,

One of our most knowledgeable Administrators, Rob. Turner, just commented on why ClamAV might temporarily cause system resources to increase, here's what he had to say on the subject.

The clam av engine loads it's full virus definitions signature set into memory:  which takes from  100 to 600mb.  add to that the clam  scanning engine  and virus definitions updater and clam alone  can in a worst case  scenario use  in the the 700mb  of memory range.   Currently we have extra experimental blue keep preventative signatures out for a worm we're expecting that are inflating the  usual virus definitions set size.

You can try updating the clam av definitions set  via the update button in the gui and running a full scan overnight.  That might get you a smaller more concise set of definitions that'll take less memory  and get you over the initial performance hump of building the local cache up.

That fixed it, altough the memory usage has now doubled and randomly spikes to 300 megabytes along with the cpu spiking to 25% sometimes

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  • 2 months later...

Laptops with light hardware and power needs lives a hardware resource nightmare with the Clamav issue in place. I don't know how powerful&effective Immunet is without Clamav enabled. I know Clamav isn't designed to be a great Windows AV  (except mail servers) either.

It would be nice if Clamav was an opt-in feature instead of opt-out. In current circumstances.

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