Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:41:53 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav? Message-ID: <20060429153724.6ED1.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.com>
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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
>
Personally, I use ZoneAlarm Suite on my WinXP machines. I have several
networked together with my FreeBSD machine.
On several occasions, ZoneAlarm has caught a virus that ClamAV missed
during mail scanning. I am not sure why though. From what I could gather,
the ClamAV signatures had not caught up to the new virus. I reload the
Clamav signatures every 4 hours. The ZoneAlarm signatures are done once
a day, however.
Just my 2ยข.
--
Gerard Seibert
gerard@seibercom.net
"Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny."
Robert Heinlein
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