[juneau-lug] Re: free anti-virus for linux and windows

  • From: Justin Burket <zorton@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:55:36 -0800

interesting about clamAV for windows.  IMHO this is a GPL'd piece of 
software that has been screaming for a windows port for sometime now.

Question though: does it do auto-update? Can I install it a 
grandmothers computer and have her all setup and ready to go?  Just 
today I had to remove an install of Norton Antivirus that was going 
nuts on startup eatting all sorts of memory and stalling the computer 
out.  Removed it and the problem went away, however now i'm stuck 
recommending some sort of anti virus replacement.  I initially 
suggested Kaspersky and McAfee but perhaps i'll see about putting 
clamAV in....

Justin


On May 12, 2004, at 4:46 PM, Kevin Miller wrote:

> Both F-Prot and Bit defender offer free scanners to Linux users.  
> F-prot is
> just for non-commercial users, but the nice folks at BitDefender say 
> any
> Linux user can use their product.  It's at
> http://www.bitdefender.com/index.php?tab=2 for those interested.  I 
> haven't
> installed it yet, but plan on doing so for some email gateways...
>
> ...Kevin
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Myron Davis [mailto:myrond@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 1:42 PM
>> To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [juneau-lug] free anti-virus for linux and windows
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been using clamav for a while and I have been very
>> satisifed with it
>> on the linux side.  Very fast updates and generally a very
>> good scanner.
>>
>> Recently there was a gui windows release of it
>> (http://clamwin.sourceforge.net/), it includes outlook integration as
>> well.  The scanner looks very very sharp.  I used to recommend
>> (AVG)grisoft.com for non-commercial usage virus scanning.  But
>> now clamav
>> has released a GPL scanner.  This is an excellent exit
>> strategy for those
>> stuck in norton other virus scan land.
>>
>> -Myron
>>
>> (btw, I'm also a mirror for clamav virus definitions too:
>> clamav.xyxx.com,
>> http://www.clamav.net/mirrors.htm)
>>
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