andrew clarke wrote:
> On Tue 2009-01-27 07:13:02 UTC-0700, Thomas Hruska ([email protected]) 
> wrote:
> 
>> IMO, the AV vendors are just as bad as the virus authors.  They want
>> OS vendors to leave security holes open in the OS just for them so
>> they can keep making and selling their software.
> 
> I basically agree with the rest of what you said, however given that
> it's open source, where does ClamAV fit into your world view? ;)
> 
> "Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX,
> designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways."
> 
> - http://www.clamav.net/

ClamAV (ClamWin) is the only AV package I have installed.  It is a 
_non-invasive_ scanner that I run once every couple years (F-Prot for 
DOS used to be my favorite _non-invasive_ scanner prior to that).

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