ClamAV is a memory-hungry-service, killing the trade-off with Security vs Performance

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ClamAV is a memory-hungry-service, killing the trade-off with Security vs Performance

Sources:

• My logwatch reports on killed services, especially clamd service
• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/114709/how-to-reduce-clamav-memory-usage

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Going to remove AV from this documents. In order to do that, I did some other stuff.

• Removed the PDF-viewer, and just use the one in Chromium if it is really needed.
• Removed all ID(L)E suites.
• Removed Samba
• Block all FTP traffic (except port 22 for SSH)

And then:

• Removed ClamAV itself and got some serious memory back (500MB+)!