From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 29 13:12:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E04616A402 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:12:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FDC943D45 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:12:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from c-68-59-28-54.hsd1.sc.comcast.net (jn@c-68-59-28-54.hsd1.sc.comcast.net [68.59.28.54]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k3TDCrQN001200; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:12:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:12:52 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.com> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604290912.52867.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Jim Stapleton Subject: Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:12:55 -0000 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"