Re: Freeware Antivirus

["Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>]

> From: Peter Busser <peter () trusteddebian org>
> > My questiun to the list is what other FREE quality antivirus tools are 
> there
> > out there, I'm particularly looking for the end hosts but may as well
> > include other solutions.  I always used to recommend  CA's InnoculateIT,
> > that is until they started charging for it.
>
> There is clamav, which is a GPLed virus scanner. It is available for Linux,
> maybe it is also available for MS-Windows (it is claimed to be POSIX 
> compliant,
> so it should be portable).
>
> I haven't used it as of yet, so I can't really comment on its speed and
> quality.

We're using Clam-AV here.  We've only been using it for a few weeks with a 
light load, but so far it's been working just fine, easily dealt with the 
sobig problem.

Chris Berry
compjma () hotmail com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

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