ClamWin Free Antivirus is based on ClamAV engine and uses GNU General Public License by the Free Software Foundation, and is free (as in freedom) software. To find out more about GNU GPL, please visit the following link: Philosophy of the GNU Project - Free Software Foundation.
Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.(Read more...) What part of this is NOT Open Source? it is GPL (both windows and AV). > Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 12:50:13 -0700 > From: codecompl...@free.fr > To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] [Windows] How does ClamAV compare with > closed-source alternatives? > > > > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > Keep in mind that (at the moment), "ClamAV" and "ClamAV for Windows" are > > two completely unrelated products. > > Yup, that's what other users said above. Unfortunately, the page about > ClamAV for Windows doesn't say anywhere that it only scans for malware in > RAM, not on mass-storage: > > www.clamav.net/lang/en/about/win32/ > > I suspect this oversight is not unrelated to ClamAV for Windows being a > closed-source product ;-) > > > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > There is a "Start Scan" button on the "Scan" screen in the UI, but there > > are no options to specify what it is scanning so I'm not sure exactly what > > it does. > > It obviously only scans for malware in RAM. I have two 200GB hard-disks, and > they are clearly not being scanned by ClamAV for Windows. > > Thank you. > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/-Windows--How-does-ClamAV-compare-with-closed-source-alternatives--tp28535727p28540359.html > Sent from the clamav-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
