From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 29 13:18:16 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 C653116A404 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:18:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5364143D45 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:18:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so1485097wxc for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:18:15 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Hba1Q3HZvznTmiZKfaY69hilsC/IFj+8Y4kWAGpoXnNRYWJInJpD524Qdj73l89u8GghlkbKdCSHLcy7oVAK5wmWaXWyFtjAIYur0EP/Q9WyJSvFPDH4c9eels1ys8i6t0KcVWPa1bSKNQ6NLigG/JA6QtlUm8eOKIpwn6uSjbg= Received: by 10.70.78.17 with SMTP id a17mr956340wxb; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.76.10 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20604290618n394a40b6p6f0bb671b052b401@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:18:15 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200604290912.52867.lists@jnielsen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.com> <200604290912.52867.lists@jnielsen.net> 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 13:18:16 -0000 Thanks. I don't use the free AVG on windows: I get McAfee Enterprise for free through my work. And the AVG free won't let me turn off the email scanner, which has ~75%-90% crash rates on the machines I've tried it on, requiring me to reboot before I can attempt to check my email again... On 4/29/06, John Nielsen wrote: > 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.c= om > 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" >