Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:41:09 -0700 From: "jdow" <jdow@earthlink.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine:clamav? Message-ID: <031f01c66be6$64d21ee0$0225a8c0@Wednesday> References: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.com> <200604290912.52867.lists@jnielsen.net>
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From: "John Nielsen" <lists@jnielsen.net> > 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. I have enabled the Earthlink AV blocker. I run SpamAssassin here with the ClamAV plugin. Then I run F-Secure on the main machine and Norton on the second machine. I figure defense in depth is a fairly good thing. {^_^} Joanne
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