I have a 250GB Hard Drive and my weekly full virus scans were taking 4 Hours in Safe-Mode. Plus inside of the .clamwin directory, files marked xxx.infected were being remarked infected so they became xxx.infected.000
So I started playing with the “Filters” under Tools > Preferences. I increased the defaults that they provided and added these:
. *.infected
. *.mp3
. *.mp4
. *.pdf
. *.conf
. *.wma
. *.aup
. *.au
. *.jpg
. *.jpeg
. *.bmp
. *.tiff
. *.png
. *.wav
. *.txt
. *.gif
. *.vdi
. *.ps
. *.url
. *.xml
. *.sav
. *.vmem
. *.vmsn
. *.iso
. *.vmdk
. *.htm
. *.html
. *.avi
. *.mpg
. *.mpeg
. *.a2c
. *.3g2
. *.a2w
I will post later to inform of improvement.
Clamwin is a free virus scanning program for Windows & Linux Operating Systems. You can download it from http://www.clamwin.org
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