From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 1 07:29:56 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 BE46416A402 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 07:29:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maxsec@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01FE343D45 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 07:29:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maxsec@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 57so2548688wri for ; Mon, 01 May 2006 00:29:55 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=SD6Qr43Itl7Z3u54SmkSnMUoY1b1bRKC7Y9d9Tg92eAAVCHAoGxsY3RmjKrynjQsaXR0C/NFqU7P+VJsyWupUb9K+D73ouonbxw4C56WjbKvtWDynCSb0qmxSieqTpeM4J3lfrOVIisbboUJmP9V9P3lE0T01yV7wDOLSbnumaI= Received: by 10.54.103.20 with SMTP id a20mr1263742wrc; Mon, 01 May 2006 00:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.97.9 with HTTP; Mon, 1 May 2006 00:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <72cf361e0605010029o7f8dd0e3o3d002223a6e4d7a4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 08:29:55 +0100 From: "Martin Hepworth" To: "Jim Stapleton" In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Mon, 01 May 2006 07:29:56 -0000 I use Clamav on my mail gateway (along with Sophos) and it works very well, quite a few times catching new virus outbreaks quicker than Sophos. (All wrapped up with MailScanner which also calls SpamAssassin for me). BUT email/http isn't the only way to infect a windows PC so you really to have a solution where the problem is - on the PC. Perimeter AV solutions fo= r Windows don't go anywhere near solving the problem. There's http://www.clamwin.com/, or many commercial solutions that aren't too expensive, AVG do a 'free' home solution. www.f-prot.com is the one I use at work. Kapersky is good also.... -- Martin On 4/29/06, 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)? > > 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" >