* Magnus Sundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030401 15:13]: wrote: > Hi, > I while ago, I read an article that stated that opensource anti-virus > scanners did not catch any of the recent viruses. > From scanning the archive this seems to not be true. > Does anybody know of any comparisons between Clam anti virus and other > commercial solutions? > What is your subjective opinion?
Yes, I know. Opensource (read Clamav) requires that some folk who is not paid updates the virusdef db, while with the commercial ones, some folks are paid to do this job, hence the difference. For me as a person, and for my love for Open Source, I'd rather stick to Clamav, because it works. What you need to realize is that Open Source projects are "community" projects and can be equally effective with the community participating in the process. For example, Tomasz does update the virus db from sources that also include contributions from people using commercial products. I know this does not answer your question head-on, but it would take ages for us to compare clamav with those commercial products and then publish the results ;-) -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The box said 'Requires Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com Windows 95, NT, or better,' Tel: +254 2 313985-9 +254 2 313922 so I installed FreeBSD." GSM: +254 72 743223 +254 733 744121 This sig is McQ! :-) Schizophrenia beats being alone. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
