Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:12:52 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav? Message-ID: <200604290912.52867.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.com>
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On Saturday 29 April 2006 09:06, Jim Stapleton wrote: > Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad, Ugly? > > Should I use something else, or is the only good alternative > pay/expensive (such as avast)? > Am I better at leaving the antivirus stuff to the Windows machine > (which has McAfee Enterprise)? I use ClamAV to scan all incoming e-mail on my mailserver with very good results. I haven't ever used it as a file-scanner but I imagine it would serve adequately. I frequently use AVG antivirus as well. Their "free" edition is free to download and use at home on a single computer. See http://free.grisoft.com for more info. The non-free versions are more reasonably priced and (IMO) in some ways superior to the other Windows AV products I've used, most notably in ease-of-use and staying up-to-date. JN > Background: > System lags occasionally, and has crashed a few times, and is getting > disk errors (both HDs, one IDE, one SATA started this at the same > time). I suspect the motherboard, but can't be certain, could be Mem > or PSU. > > Could also be virus. > > So, I want to scan my backed up files while reinstalling Windows on > the other machine, before letting them go back home to play. > > Thanks > -Jim > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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