Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
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

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread John Nielsen
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 Ente

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Richard Collyer
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 occasion

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
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

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Derek Ragona
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 an

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
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!

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread wmc20
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 '

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Michael Stevens
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, p

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Daniel Bye
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. co

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
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: > Sys

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
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 rela

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-05-01 Thread Martin Hepworth
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