Jim Stapleton 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 > Personally, I use ZoneAlarm Suite on my WinXP machines. I have several networked together with my FreeBSD machine.
On several occasions, ZoneAlarm has caught a virus that ClamAV missed during mail scanning. I am not sure why though. From what I could gather, the ClamAV signatures had not caught up to the new virus. I reload the Clamav signatures every 4 hours. The ZoneAlarm signatures are done once a day, however. Just my 2ยข. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny." Robert Heinlein _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"