> Are there any independent tests out there that do not paint such a bleak > picture? Are there any plans to submit ClamAV or ClamWin to Virus > Bulletin?
Want stats? We employ clam, uvscan (McAfee/NAI) and bdc. Clam is much faster because of clamd so it is first. Here is the breakdown in order of scanning engine since the 1st of October: Clamav: 2539 bdc: 5 (3 of these were EICAR's of some form) uvscan: 0 Yes, that reads 99.8% with 0% being left for uvscan. If this is not an "independent" test then I don't know what is. We have filtered 57,000 viruses in the past two years. I don't have stats for ClamAV v. McAfee since 0.67, however, the last month's reporting is very convincing. If it did not take so much cpu power and disk i/o I would test the entire /var/virusmails tree and see what todays McAfee v. ClamAV look like. My guess is that ClamAV is ahead based on recent observations and the information reported above. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls /var/virusmails/ | wc -l 57805 McAfee has done a great job and they are the name which started virus scanning and cleaning. To most, McAfee means "virusscan." Times are changing and the community driven projects are starting to take over in many aspects of the computing world. Our license for McAfee is coming up and I am thinking very hard about discontinuing its use. In addition, we see ClamAV database updates daily (sometimes more than daily) and McAfee's stable signatures are always weekly plus infrequent "emergency" releases and cumbersome extra.dat's. I would use their daily releases but they are marked "experimental/untested" and the last thing you want is your virus scanner core dumping (which has happened with uvscan). We started using ClamAV at version 0.67 (we had used only uvscan previously). At that time, there were roughly 40 viruses in our holding tank (think ghostbusters) which uvscan caught that clam didn't. At that time, all of the viruses that were missed where posted. By the time I had done the scan and comparison between uvscan and clam, at least 3 of the viruses had already been reported by someone else as some were rejected as already existing -- now that is fast signature update! I have nothing but good words for the ClamAV team and you as the ClamAV community. They have done an incredible job and since this is community driven, this will only get better. Kudos to the ClamAV team and everyone who supports them. You have our support and testimony and I look forward to the future of this project. -- Eric Wheeler Vice President National Security Concepts, Inc. PO Box 3567 Tualatin, OR 97062 http://www.nsci.us/ Voice: (503) 293-7656 Fax: (503) 885-0770 _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
