I want to scan larger files with clamscan. I dont know how big a file can be in order to be scanned.Anyway Ive learned that I cannot scan lets say a 60MB-file directly.E.g.:clamscan /home/rosika/Schreibtisch/Dokumente/Hrspiele/Sherlock_Holmes/hrspiel.mp3 yields amongst other info:Data scanned: 0.00 MBThe man pages say: maxfilesize=#n: Extract and scan at most #n bytes from each  archive. So this probably means that I have to pack my .mp3-file into an archive before being able to scan it.I tested that by packing three .mp3-files (radio plays) into an archive and then scanning it:clamscan --max-filesize=300M --max-scansize=300M /home/rosika/Schreibtisch/Dokumente/Hrspiele/Sherlock_Holmes.tar.bz2 And that really worked.Info: Data scanned: 180.76 MB.Well, my question is: Do I always have to pack larger files before being able to scan them? Is there really no direct way of doing this?And whats the limit in MB?Thanks a lot in advance.Greetings.Rosika
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