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

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.

ClamAV is great IMHO.

I would use a windows machine to scan the files for virus as not many viruses (is that correct spelling?) exist for Unix so exposing that to virus stuff would be better than a windows machine doing the same.

Cheers
Richard
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