Well 'security expert' is just a title. Heck, anyone can call themselves a "security expert" and if you just need "another" security expert to refute his/her claim personally with some marketing jargon to do with it, I'm sure anyone here would volunteer, in absence of that I will volunteer as a "security expert" if need be.
The last major AV test I read about had ClamAV at the top of all over commercial or free virus scanners out there. This was only a month or so ago from what I remember. I'm sure these studies and test are all over Google/Yahoo/Ask, etc search engines. Of course, the big thing is, what are they selling and what are they comparing ClamAV to? Thanks, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all. > > We've had some consultant make the spurious claim that Clam AV only scans for > 'windows viruses' and is really only useful for 'scanning email'. > Despite the fact that I know this to be patently false, is there > documentation out there I can slap him with that clearly indicates that the > virus > defs are for any platform, Linux, windows, Unix, Mac OS X, etc. ? I can prove > that it scans the file system just by sprinkling a few test viri things > out in the file system. Hard to argue with that sort of evidence. > > The rest of it, well, now it's personal. > > -J > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html > > _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
