On Friday 18 March 2005 05:14 pm, Robert Citek wrote: > On Friday, Mar 18, 2005, at 16:43 US/Central, Scott Granneman wrote: > > On Friday 18 March 2005 04:32 pm, Robert Citek wrote: > >> http://www.clamwin.com/ > >> > >> Anyone here us it, recommend it, recommend others? > > > > i use it. works. haven't found anything, though! > > > > on windows, i always just use AVG, from http://www.grisoft.com. it's > > free, but > > not open. or, for $30, you get 2 yrs of protection AND auto-updates. > > Any advantage of ClamWin over AVG? In other words, why not use ClamWin > instead of AVG, or vice-versa? Or would it be a good idea to use both?
this is debatable, but here goes: i'm leaning towards the idea that a/v is one area where commercial may trump open source, only because a/v is so often a race against time & quantity, which commercial groups may have a bigger interest in achieving. anyone else? i wouldn't use anything else in addition to avg, since, like lee said, avg works so dang well. > >> I'm aware of > >> Spybot-S&D and Ad-Aware, but both are non-FLOSS. > > > > those are anti-spyware, not anti-virus. > > Right. From what I understand, under Windows you NEED both an > anti-virus package and an anti-spyware package. Are there any FLOSS > anti-spyware packages for Windows? none that i know of. scott -- R. Scott Granneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications: http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book on Firefox: Don't Click on the Blue E! Info at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bluee/ Read the Open Source Blog: http://opensource.weblogsinc.com Join GranneNotes! Information at www.granneman.com "Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us." ---Jerry Garcia _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list http://www.cwelug.org/ [email protected] http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug
