Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:17:41 +0100 From: Richard Collyer <richard@firebadger.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav? Message-ID: <44536775.7090306@firebadger.net> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.com>
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Jim Stapleton wrote: > Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad, Ugly? > > Should I use something else, or is the only good alternative > pay/expensive (such as avast)? > Am I better at leaving the antivirus stuff to the Windows machine > (which has McAfee Enterprise)? > > Background: > System lags occasionally, and has crashed a few times, and is getting > disk errors (both HDs, one IDE, one SATA started this at the same > time). I suspect the motherboard, but can't be certain, could be Mem > or PSU. > > Could also be virus. > > So, I want to scan my backed up files while reinstalling Windows on > the other machine, before letting them go back home to play. ClamAV is great IMHO. I would use a windows machine to scan the files for virus as not many viruses (is that correct spelling?) exist for Unix so exposing that to virus stuff would be better than a windows machine doing the same. Cheers Richard
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