I Just had an idea, you know how clamWin scans only one file at a time, would it be faster if it scanned multiple files at the same time? eg say break it up into say 3 to 4 scans running at the same, each scanning a different file.

E.g.

Normal scan

Files: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Scans: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

My idea

Files: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Scan1: 1 2 3
Scan2: 4 5 6
Scan3: 7 8 9
Scan4: 10

All running at the same time.

Would this be faster?

uh? you mean multi threaded? unfortunately clamscan it's a single threaded application

I don't mean multi threaded, how can i explain this.

when ClamWin scans it scans one file at a time, eg c:\files\file1.exe | then c:\files\file2.exe c:\files\file3.exe and so on. Say this takes 10 seconds.

What i am asking is would it be faster to do multiple cans at one time eg.

Start scan

c:\files\file1.exe
c:\files\file2.exe
c:\files\file3.exe

And it scans all 3 files all at once, So instead of cheeking one files at a time it cheeks 3 at a time.

See what i mean?

Just say you have a box of apples, and you cheek one apple at a time to see if there is a worm on it, now if you where able to look at 3 apples at a time(and taking the same time to look at 1) you would be able to sort all the apples faster.

it won't be any faster. bottleneck in clamav is IO rather than CPU