Anti-Vir nagware?

[El Gee]

Just updated a few days ago and I now get a pop-up (easily fixed via
firewall) of asking to to connect to Antivir site. If you allow it it
gives you a promo windows offering the pro edition for personal use ... for
a price.

Too bad, I really enjoy the software. My guess is that it will get to the
point where no one will want to use the free version.

FYI

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[AJSMITH]

mines just started doing the same thing.

 

[Gerhard Hofmann]

Just updated a few days ago and I now get a pop-up (easily fixed via
firewall) of asking to to connect to Antivir site. If you allow it it
gives you a promo windows offering the pro edition for personal use ... for
a price.

Too bad, I really enjoy the software. My guess is that it will get to the
point where no one will want to use the free version.

FYI

Have used Antivir PE for a while and was annoyed by the slow upgrade
process. Much better: www.clamwin.com

Regards
Gerhard

 

[Richard Steinfeld]

Have used Antivir PE for a while and was annoyed by the slow upgrade
process. Much better: www.clamwin.com

Regards
Gerhard

Very interesting!
I downloaded the programs and related items fro the Antivir site two
days ago. The download took a long time because connections timed out
repeatedly.

Regarding Clamwin: what's odd is that with all the antivirus discussions
we've been having here lately, nobody's mentioned this! And it's
open-source, too -- right up our alley, no?

I'd like to hear more about Clamwin. Can anyone report about it?

Richard

 

[Mark Warner]

Regarding Clamwin: what's odd is that with all the antivirus
discussions we've been having here lately, nobody's mentioned this!
And it's open-source, too -- right up our alley, no?

I'd like to hear more about Clamwin. Can anyone report about it?

Last time I checked, it still had no resident scanning. For an on-demand
scanner, I'd give it good marks.

I vaguely recall a resident scanner being promised in the near
future....

 

[El Gee]

Last time I checked, it still had no resident scanning. For an on- demand
scanner, I'd give it good marks.

I vaguely recall a resident scanner being promised in the near
future....

Same. I prefer having a resident scanner with my wife and son using this
box

Clam is on my slow Linux server, just in case.

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[Lenny Nero]

Richard Steinfeld said:

I'd like to hear more about Clamwin. Can anyone report about it?

Richard

I have been using it for quite a few months without any problems, IMHO it
is working very well, I have antivir on another boot and think its about a
60-40 split in clamwin's favor ATM, updates take seconds and the scans I
have done seem to be faster.

I have installed it on my newest boxes, I had been using anitvir for
quite some time and was (and still are) happy with it, but clamwin has the
edge for the time being.

L.

 

[BillR]

For those sufficiently bothered by the AntiVir nag screen that pops up
every time I update AntiVir, I recommend switching to avast! plus
avast! External Control. The latter enhances the simplified (i.e.,
restricted) avast! interface (e.g., providing more flexible scan
scheduling).

Like AntiVir (and AVG), avast! includes an on-access monitor. Neither
ClamWin, BitDefender (free version), nor other free AVs like F-Prot for
DOS or Antidote provide an on-access monitor. A ClamWin monitor has
been promised but based on the comments in the ClamWin.com forums I
wouldn't expect a production release this year.

Ignoring detection and repair, I've found avast! plus AEC more useful
than AntiVir or AVG. Two small examples: AntiVir does not support
on-demand scanning from the context menu of a multiple file list (just
a single folder or a single file); AVG (free) scheduled scanning is
limited to scanning the entire local disk(s). A pet peeve: AVG no
longer supports disabling the on-access monitor as on option on the
tray icon context menu.

Note that some of the free versions (on-demand and/or on-access) of
these tools also don't scan within zip and other compressed files. (I
don't happen to remember which do what.)

I haven't found any good published statistics on the effectiveness of
ClamWin / ClamAV. BitDefender, however, usually fares better --
sometimes much better as well as with far few false positives -- than
AntiVir, avast!, or AVG on detection and repair tests. Anyone using
one of those on-access scanners would benefit from adopting BD for
scheduled and on-demand scanning. (Just remember that BD defaults to
"repair, otherwise remove", NOT "prompt for action".)

BTW, the AntiVir vendor site notes that the download and update area of
the site has been somewhat overwhelmed and the vendor is working on it.
Personally, I haven't encountered anything like the problems I had
with updating AVG last year.

BillR

 

[Sparky]

Same. I prefer having a resident scanner with my wife and son using this
box

Clam is on my slow Linux server, just in case.

Clamwin works fine (found some baddies) but, yes, I'm waiting for the
resident-scanning as well.

-Sparky