ClamWin Antivirus 0.21

[Steve Basford]

ClamWin Antivirus provides Graphical User Interface to Clam Antivirus scanning
engine. It allows to select and scan a folder or file, configure settings and
update virus databases. It also includes a Windows Taskbar tray icon.

ClamWin also features a context menu handler for Windows Explorer which
installs Scan into the right-click explorer menu for files and folders.

Microsoft Outlook users may enjoy ClamWin Outlook Addin, which removes
virus-infected attachments when an email is being opened.

http://clamwin.sourceforge.net/

 

[Vrodok the Troll]

ClamWin Antivirus provides Graphical User Interface to Clam Antivirus scanning
engine. It allows to select and scan a folder or file, configure settings and
update virus databases. It also includes a Windows Taskbar tray icon.

ClamWin also features a context menu handler for Windows Explorer which
installs Scan into the right-click explorer menu for files and folders.

Microsoft Outlook users may enjoy ClamWin Outlook Addin, which removes
virus-infected attachments when an email is being opened.

http://clamwin.sourceforge.net/

Thanx

 

[null]

ClamWin Antivirus provides Graphical User Interface to Clam Antivirus scanning
engine. It allows to select and scan a folder or file, configure settings and
update virus databases. It also includes a Windows Taskbar tray icon.

ClamWin also features a context menu handler for Windows Explorer which
installs Scan into the right-click explorer menu for files and folders.

Microsoft Outlook users may enjoy ClamWin Outlook Addin, which removes
virus-infected attachments when an email is being opened.

http://clamwin.sourceforge.net/

Interesting. It has a long way to go in terms of detection, but the
unbloated on-demand scanner is a nice approach IMO. It would be
interesting to see a good ITW (In The Wild) test.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[Antoine]

ClamWin Antivirus provides Graphical User Interface to Clam
Antivirus scanning engine. It allows to select and scan a folder
or file, configure settings and update virus databases. It also
includes a Windows Taskbar tray icon.

ClamWin also features a context menu handler for Windows Explorer
which installs Scan into the right-click explorer menu for files
and folders.

Microsoft Outlook users may enjoy ClamWin Outlook Addin, which
removes virus-infected attachments when an email is being opened.

http://clamwin.sourceforge.net/

This looks interesting ; thank you.
I have given ClamWin antivirus a try and have two remarks/questions
:

1/ In the application preferences, there is no mention of on-access
scan ; is the on-access feature provided and not deactivable or is
it not provided ?

2/ The on-demand scanner looks quite slow relatively to the speed of
:
- AntiVir
- AVG
- Norton [OT]

 

[Antoine]

1/ In the application preferences, there is no mention of on-access
scan ; is the on-access feature provided and not deactivable or is
it not provided ?

<quoting : http://www.clamav.net/>
on-access scanning (Linux)
</quoting>

 

[null]

This looks interesting ; thank you.
I have given ClamWin antivirus a try and have two remarks/questions

1/ In the application preferences, there is no mention of on-access
scan ; is the on-access feature provided and not deactivable or is
it not provided ?

I found no on-access monitor component.

2/ The on-demand scanner looks quite slow relatively to the speed of
:
- AntiVir
- AVG
- Norton [OT]

It seemed reasonably fast to me. But remember that Clam claims to only
knowing about 20,865 malwares while F-Prot now claims well over
100,000. Clam is not yet on a par with most other antivirus scanner
products.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[Antoine]

It seemed reasonably fast to me. But remember that Clam claims to
only knowing about 20,865 malwares while F-Prot now claims well
over 100,000. Clam is not yet on a par with most other antivirus
scanner products.

Thanks for pointing this out ; you are right.

 

[Steve Basford]

It seemed reasonably fast to me. But remember that Clam claims to only
knowing about 20,865 malwares while F-Prot now claims well over
100,000. Clam is not yet on a par with most other antivirus scanner
products.

my take on this is that the windows gui has only been out a few days and
I'd only use this as a backup scanner at the moment. However, the
outlook integration is certainly a welcome new improvement.

ClamAv had been use on servers (linux mainly) for quite some time but in the
short time I've been using the windows ports, I've been impressed with the
speed of it's virus definitions.

As for the number of virii it detects, well, it relies mainly on people to
submit virus files to them, so they can add to the database.

Having a windows gui version, gives clamav a wider number of people who could
then submit virii to the clamav people

Just before I got really off topic, here's a few links:

http://www.gietl.com/test-clamav/ clamav online specimen scanner/submit link
http://clamav.or.id daily windows non-gui builds of clamav
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.virus.clamav.virusdb list of updates

Hope that helps

Cheers,

Steve