Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 08:29:55 +0100 From: "Martin Hepworth" <maxsec@gmail.com> To: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav? Message-ID: <72cf361e0605010029o7f8dd0e3o3d002223a6e4d7a4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20604290606h64e259d5w3d3c21891779eb06@mail.gmail.com>
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I use Clamav on my mail gateway (along with Sophos) and it works very well, quite a few times catching new virus outbreaks quicker than Sophos. (All wrapped up with MailScanner which also calls SpamAssassin for me). BUT email/http isn't the only way to infect a windows PC so you really to have a solution where the problem is - on the PC. Perimeter AV solutions fo= r Windows don't go anywhere near solving the problem. There's http://www.clamwin.com/, or many commercial solutions that aren't too expensive, AVG do a 'free' home solution. www.f-prot.com is the one I use at work. Kapersky is good also.... -- Martin On 4/29/06, Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@gmail.com> 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. > > Thanks > -Jim > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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