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

From: "John Nielsen" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Saturday 29 April 2006 09:06, 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)?

I use ClamAV to scan all incoming e-mail on my mailserver with very good results. I haven't ever used it as a file-scanner but I imagine it would serve adequately.

I frequently use AVG antivirus as well. Their "free" edition is free to download and use at home on a single computer. See http://free.grisoft.com for more info. The non-free versions are more reasonably priced and (IMO) in some ways superior to the other Windows AV products I've used, most notably in ease-of-use and staying up-to-date.

I have enabled the Earthlink AV blocker. I run SpamAssassin here with
the ClamAV plugin. Then I run F-Secure on the main machine and Norton
on the second machine. I figure defense in depth is a fairly good thing.

{^_^} Joanne
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