I am using a third party mail scanning software solutiong that runs on linux. This software has the option to integrate with various Anti-virus scanners but I need a solution that can run as a service/daemon(socket). I have Enterprise space license so have access to KAV for linux workstation, fileserver and mailserver.

I have installed KAV4LMS and configured the software to scan using the kav4lms-kavscanner command line scanner but everytime an email is passed through the system the kav4lms-kavscanner must load the full anti-virus pattern database from scratch. This takes lots of CPU and memory and will not work in production environment where multiple emails are passing through the system at once.

I would like to use KAVMD to do the scanning but there is not documentation on how to send files to the socket to scan. When I look at http://www.kaspersky.com/support/linux_mai...n?qid=208279819 it states that the scanning protocol has changed and any queries on how the protocol works should be sent to Kaspersky support.

Does anybody have information on how I can send files to KAVMD socket (/var/run/kav4lms/kavmd.sock) for scanning. Or if I can use kav4fs or kav4ws to implement a daemonized scanning service?

Thanks.