ClamWin does not have real-time scanning which makes it unpractical for the corporate desktop. Scheduled scanning is great and all but without real-time protection you leave yourself open to a lot of trouble.
I have used ClamWin to detect viruses that other AV software doesn't pick up so that I know where to start when I am cleaning it off and the E-Mail scanning for Outlook is nice too but without the real-time scanning it's no where near as useful as a protection mechanism compared to the commercial options available for windows. ClamAV is quite useful when tied into Samba or a mail server though and picks up many viruses that McAfee (or Symantec - Does Symantec pick up any viruses? :P) does not. Cheers, Trevor On September 30, 2005 11:25 am, Tek Budda wrote: > Travis Rousseau wrote: > > clam http://www.clamav.net/ > > > > On 9/30/05, bogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hi, > >>Any good suggestions for opensource virus detectors that would work with > >> a samba server and scan files ? > >> > >>Only OSS/GPL stuff :-) > > Further to Travis's suggestion as well. There is a ClamAV client for > windows called clamwin (clamwin.com). There is also one for Mac OS X. > Not sure of the name but I believe they include it in the latest OS X > version (Tiger). I test drove the windows variant at work (before I got > canned) for deployment of a desktop antivirus solution to comliment the > Symantec stuff on the server. It worked excellent in my opinion with > less bloat than Norton, scheduled updates, scans and a quarentine > feature. You could also specify the directory where updates could be > downloaded so you could have one main system and the clients pull from it. > > If I ever get in a place that will allow it I would DEFINATELY deploy > this solution. > > Cameron > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying
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