Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:16:45 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav? Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060429081603.029693d0@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.co m> References: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.com>
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Clamav works well but can be slow scanning an entire system.
-Derek
At 08:06 AM 4/29/2006, 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)?
>
>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
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