On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 03:22:03PM -0600, Don Delp wrote: > > I've been switching my Windows users to Avast from AVG lately, since > it hasn't had a good track record against Internet Security 2010. I > didn't realize there was a Linux version. Sweet! Clam doesn't seem > to update often, but Avast claims to update several times a day. Now > I'll have a better way to scan a user's drive offline.
Uh, what metric are you using in the claim that clam doesn't
update often? I show 377 updates to my clam boxes since
October 29th, 2009, quite often multiple updates per day - just
curious why you aren't see similar counts. Please note, my
boxes check for updates every hour so I generally catch updates
as soon as they are available.
In my experience clam has new signatures available as fast, if
not faster, than any other players in the market.
I place scant regard in the commercial vendors update frequency;
all too often what they push out as updates are irrelevant to
the signatures themselves but rather just fodder to bump the
counts up for marketing reasons; considering how tight the
AV market is this really isn't surprising as companies jostle
for market share.
As far as AVG, good riddance :) I've never been an AVG fanboi,
had too many issues with it. Avast is an excellent product for
most users. Please note, though, that there is still a problem
with avast (all versions) that will cause serious system
performance issues. If you are doing a lot of torrenting or any
other activity that requires significant file system activity
across lots of files, the file system filter hook starts to
get bogged down significantly; at times you can stop and restart
the avast services from the services console but generally they
won't come back up, claiming an RPC-based error. Windows boxen
can't restart RPC services at will so you need to reboot to
clear the problem. This is, of course, a corner case and won't
affect everyone but it is something to be aware of. I am using
Avira on my windows box here at the house and it's been fine
so far; my wife and my in-laws are all using Avast and they are
happy with it. YMMV.
John
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