Quoting Magnus Sundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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? >
I have ClamAV, H+B EDV AntiVir, and FRISK F-Prot Antivirus/Linux. (zero cost licenses for personal, non-commercial use for the latter two). Certainly the latter two (commercial) scanners catch more than ClamAV. However, no scanner has caught every virus. There are updates for the commercial scanners several times a week. Updates to ClamAV are less frequent, probably several times a month. Updates to Open AntiVirus, the most prominent open source scanner, are even less frequent. I see no reason to run it. Plus it is written in Java and so takes lots more memory than ClamAV. And there is paid McAfee VirusScan On-line on a Windows box. It also missed a virus that was caught by a smart user. A week later, the update came that would detect it. So my conclusion/recommendation is to use as many scanners as you can afford (license fees and fast hardware). Check for updates at least once a day. And have only intelligent users. Just my $0.02USD, Jeffrey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
