Michael Grant wrote: > Does anyone know any good independent sites that have reviewed the > effectiveness of various different anti-virus programs including Clam?
Doing such comparisons is not an easy task. Results are quite a lot affected by the type of the samples inside the collection used for the tests. The only researcher I'm personally aware of that knows how to work in this field and that is also reviewing ClamAV (in fact one win32 port) is Andreas Marx from av-test.org. In every other case the collection was not properly sorted out (lots of broken, not properly replicated or even clean samples, lack of dropped files, etc.) or the testing metodolody was flawed. Anyway, since again the results are much dependent on the samples used, what we usually raccomend on this list is not to blindly believe any stats you can find around the internet, but test the products inside your specific environment. And possibly don't rely on a single AV product. > I tried doing both a google and yahoo search for obvious things like > 'anti virus compare' and all it turns up is junk. It pisses me off > the way people spam the search engines to the point of making them > useless. http://www.searchlores.org/ _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
