Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?
I use Clamav on my mail gateway (along with Sophos) and it works very well, quite a few times catching new virus outbreaks quicker than Sophos. (All wrapped up with MailScanner which also calls SpamAssassin for me). BUT email/http isn't the only way to infect a windows PC so you really to have a solution where the problem is - on the PC. Perimeter AV solutions for Windows don't go anywhere near solving the problem. There's http://www.clamwin.com/, or many commercial solutions that aren't too expensive, AVG do a 'free' home solution. www.f-prot.com is the one I use at work. Kapersky is good also -- Martin On 4/29/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?
On Saturday 29 April 2006 09:06, 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)? I use ClamAV to scan all incoming e-mail on my mailserver with very good results. I haven't ever used it as a file-scanner but I imagine it would serve adequately. I frequently use AVG antivirus as well. Their free edition is free to download and use at home on a single computer. See http://free.grisoft.com for more info. The non-free versions are more reasonably priced and (IMO) in some ways superior to the other Windows AV products I've used, most notably in ease-of-use and staying up-to-date. JN 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?
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. ClamAV is great IMHO. I would use a windows machine to scan the files for virus as not many viruses (is that correct spelling?) exist for Unix so exposing that to virus stuff would be better than a windows machine doing the same. Cheers Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?
Thanks. I don't use the free AVG on windows: I get McAfee Enterprise for free through my work. And the AVG free won't let me turn off the email scanner, which has ~75%-90% crash rates on the machines I've tried it on, requiring me to reboot before I can attempt to check my email again... On 4/29/06, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2006 09:06, 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)? I use ClamAV to scan all incoming e-mail on my mailserver with very good results. I haven't ever used it as a file-scanner but I imagine it would serve adequately. I frequently use AVG antivirus as well. Their free edition is free to download and use at home on a single computer. See http://free.grisoft.com for more info. The non-free versions are more reasonably priced and (IMO) in some ways superior to the other Windows AV products I've used, most notably in ease-of-use and staying up-to-date. JN 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?
Clamav works well but can be slow scanning an entire system. -Derek At 08:06 AM 4/29/2006, 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?
Thanks everyone. Virii would be the correct spelling we biologists use, but viruses is standard in normal-people-speak, and gets the meaing across. I doubt I need to scan my entire machine, just my /winbackup/ directory (about 10-15GB max) Thanks again! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?
At 09:25 AM 4/29/2006, Jim Stapleton wrote: Virii would be the correct spelling we biologists use, but viruses is standard in normal-people-speak, and gets the meaing across. Actually I was reading up on correct vs. common plurals after a little debate around the office. It would appear the 'ii plural or virus is NOT correct. See: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/g63.html -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?
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)? I've used it for a few years, primarily for mail filtering. I had a few problems with crashes a couple of years ago, but its been very stable since. I haven't noticed any false positives - I don't actually run any windows systems or feed them, so I wouldn't have noticed the false negatives if they occur. Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 10:12:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:25 AM 4/29/2006, Jim Stapleton wrote: Virii would be the correct spelling we biologists use, but viruses is standard in normal-people-speak, and gets the meaing across. Actually I was reading up on correct vs. common plurals after a little debate around the office. It would appear the 'ii plural or virus is NOT correct. See: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/g63.html I think virus is a second declension masculine noun, so its nominative plural would be 'viri', but a plural form is not known from the extant cannon of Classical Latin. A complication would be that 'viri' is already known as the nominative plural of 'vir' (man), also of the second declension (I believe - my Latin was never up to much anyway, and what with no Cardinals or Popes to practise conversational Latin, I have forgotten most of it!). Which is why the other form 'virii' is occasionally seen, but again without precedent from Classical Latin, and with no attestation in any dictionary. This article at Wikipedia is pretty informative, if you like that kind of thing! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpgiCafwObhh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?
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]
Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?
I'm not really here for windows advice, Just FreeBSD. I'm happy with my windows AV solution as it is, as I've had too many issues with many other solutions... And I have verified that it was hardware that was the problem, not a virus, makes sense, it would be my first virus if it were a virus related problem. -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
