Dave P wrote:
I am trying to convince my company to switch to open
source where possible. It is much easier if the
software has been evaluated by an independent group.
Unfortunately, reviews that I could find, including GMX Systematic and Heise magazines, were negative. The opinion seemed to be summed up by Andreas Marx's (of AV-Test.Org) comments to the 2004 Virus Bulletin Conference where he said that results of a particular test were not available for "ClamAV, because a large number of files in our test set are still not detected."
Are there any independent tests out there that do not paint such a bleak picture? Are there any plans to submit ClamAV or ClamWin to Virus Bulletin?
Dave
I can't speak for the maintainers, but I think there was some discussion of this on the mailing list awhile back. As I recall, part of the problem was the test set included a lot of "obsolete" or older Windows 95 type viruses, as well as macro viruses that weren't detected at that time.
Since then, I know a lot of the older stuff, as well as macro virus definitions have been added.
I think a better test is side-by-side comparisons with standard, commercial, products. If you search the archives, you will some comments from users. For my part, we have Clam installed on the front end mail filter box. We also have a site license still for Norton which runs on the Exchange server and desktops. Since installing ClamAV, we have not seen a single hit by Norton.
-Bill
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