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I don't know of any other linux virus scanners besides clamav. You might be better off running a GUI and using a web-based virus scanner like https://www.virustotal.com/
There's Sophos...
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-linux.aspx
Probably also sucks RAM. I've never tried it, been meaning to.
Not a big fan of Sophos, it's resulted in too many OS re-installs for me at work but that's because our workstations are locked down and Sophos has the final say as to whether the OS is allowed to boot or not.
I believe most virus scanners load the virus databases into RAM so the scanning is faster, even though I just checked the ClamAV databases and they are both only 96.9MB so I could be wrong since @hostnood is reporting 200MB RAM usage.
Probably compressed versions. You're correct on this.
Majority uses this method to achieve faster scan rate.
Why not use an online Virus Scanner? https://virustotal.com/ for example? Will use more than one AV and don't have to pay.
Also has an API.
I need to scan the file on the VPS unfortunately. I think I'll just upgrade to 256MB for a bit
@hostnoob, I use that site + API for all my email scanning, have not had an issue.
Had to set a max of 4 scans a min though due to the API limit.