Thomas Hruska wrote: > 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).
I should also point out I do have a post-disaster analysis tool called VerifyMyPC installed (this is one of my own products). Far better, IMO, than any AV tool. I can see a history of changes to my computer down to the registry entry. Plus, using VerifyMyPC, I've had the joy of watching my product catch both Microsoft AND Google with their pants down updating my computer WITHOUT my explicit permission. -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/
