Hi all, I'm new to win32-clamAV and this list. >From what I gather, it is a port of the linux clamAV to win32.
Please do not take offence, but my ignorance of technicalities forces me to ask - why does clamAV take a lot more time than say, Norton? I'm a FOSS evangelist (google my nickname to confirm) and am pretty much aware of the FUD that proprietary chaps use for preventing FOSS adoption. So my question is not a sarcastic one, it is a technical one. I want to get out of this annual "Norton tax" trap for saving my PC from viruses (even written by a possible nexus between AV companies and crackers) Possible reasons for slow clam: 1) Since clam is a port, it scans in a right royal manner, which is not what native scanners like Norton or AVG/Avast etc do. - they only look for platform specific optimized locations 2) maybe Norton simply does not scan fully - I feel this because I have notcied several inconsistencies in both their scanning and their update mechanism. For example, when I subscribed (USD40 per year) to Norton, it used to regularly give me alerts like "Default NetBus Trojan Blocked" or "XYZ malware attack attempt blocked" etc. But now, nothing such, after the subscription period lapsed. Norton takes up a lot of memory and makes the PC slow. Finally, I have read in numerous places that it is not cleanly uninstalled. Their live update happens without telling you a hing and it accesses about 10-15 different machines without telling you a thing. So, it often behaves pretty funnily. Clam, OTOH, being FOSS is super-simple - choose folders, scan. that's it. So, in summary, how do you speed up clam? TIA, 2stepsback _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-win32
