On 06/10/2014 15:21, Tim Smith wrote:
but call paid prebuildt software always better is not correct, but mostly just
marketing
What rubbish... ClamAV always lags behind the commercial vendors in
any comparative you wish to mention.
Not if I want to make my own signatures...
It also beats the others on price and (IMHO) usability.
What other av product can you make your own virus signatures with, not usefull,
hmm
You don't need to when they've got a decent set of analysts who are on
the ball and push out new definitions quickly !
Yes you do.
We have AVG, Avira, Sophos and ClamAV.
Yes, AVG, Avira and Sophos will release virus definition updates before
ClamAV. But usually by the time even Sophos have released their updates
we've already received a few thousand copies of the virus.
With ClamAV we can beat Sophos by adding our own definitions, so we can
beat even the fastest AV vendors by a few hours (that's not knocking
them, we have different requirements from them, so we can knock together
a simple signature test and if we cause false positives, it's our
problem. We're not going to have zillions of other people complaining
and be on news channels because we broke something).
Seriously, why should I mess around with creating virus signatures,
its a waste of my time.
OK. That's a valid choice, in which case YOU will probably be better off
spending money on a commercial product. For other people, the few
seconds to generate a signature is worth the many thousands of pounds
savings they'll make from not using a commercial product. Neither is
wrong, just different priorities.
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