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

[jdow]

From: John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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.


I have enabled the Earthlink AV blocker. I run SpamAssassin here with
the ClamAV plugin. Then I run F-Secure on the main machine and Norton
on the second machine. I figure defense in depth is a fairly good thing.

{^_^}   Joanne
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Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine:clamav?

[jdow]

From: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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.


Different tools have different update cycles, different crews working
on them, and your machine has different automatic updates for the various
AV tools. That's why I like my defense in depth. So far nothing has
triggered the final F-Secure stage. But that's mainly for the web
browsing viruses anyway. The first line of defense is Earthlink's virus
blocker. So far it appears that ClamAV, the second line of defense, has
mostly caught scam rather than virus problems. I suppose the SpamAssassin
I run is another half a level of defense. It's not really an AV tool.
But an awful lot of malware emails look like spam so they trigger the
SpamAssassin stage for many people. I figure it's almost time to get
to the Trend site and run their free online scan to get a solid fourth
opinion about the sanctity of my machine here.

Color me paranoid if you wish; but, they ARE out to get me - but it's
nothing personal. They'll be happy to get you, too.

{^_-}   Joanne
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