ClamAv is sucking up all server resources

Hello, this is what clamav does to the server. There is nothing relevant in the logs. What do you suggest for this? I don’t know if it will cause problems later if I uninstall it completely. What is shown in the screenshot happens almost every day and I have to restart the server.

Thanks in advance for your help. Congratulations to the developers of Hesticp for a great job.

Hi @alins,

My recommendation, disable and stop Clamav.

systemctl disable clamav-daemon
systemctl stop clamav-daemon
v-change-sys-config-value ANTIVIRUS_SYSTEM ''
sed -i -E 's/^CLAMD =/#CLAMD =/' /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
systemctl restart exim4
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Yes. ClamAV is heavy and insufficient.

Either you disable ClamAV or you create more signatures.

The thing is that with spam assassin you won’t need to scan the uploaded files if those virus don’t get to your server.

Just disable rar, exe, etc

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@sahsanu If the virus gets in I will find you lol, I think I will take that risk. so what do you suggest for this;
Warning: Stopping clamav-daemon.service, but it can still be activated by:
clamav-daemon.socket

@jlguerrero clamav has alienated me. :frowning:

:smiley: I’ve been using my own email server since… too much :stuck_out_tongue: and I always used Clamav. Do you know how many virus it catched? Zero… well I’m lying, it detected 1, the eicar test virus files I sent to test whether it was working.

If you stop and disable clamav, then you should no worry about that warning.

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As I expected, actually.
What surprises me is that this happened while hosting a single website on a VDS server with 5CPU 6GB RAM. Goodbye ClamAV :face_with_spiral_eyes:

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