Being a defender of clamav since the beginning, I am very glad to see that this free antivirus defies most commercial antivirus and beat the majority of them !
According to this study, one can thus see that clamav detected the more viruses than many others: the study’s result
I always advice Windows users to use the windows version of that engine on their very vulnerable “operating system” : clamwin
I use clamav in the majority of mailrelays and fileservers I install.
Thus go! the clamav team continue like that!
This news was also reported on DLFP.
Clamwin does not do any on-access checks, only on-demand scans, which makes it ptretty useless on Windows, imho.
Serge, it’s possible to do on-access checks on Windows using a firefox extension like "ClamWin Antivirus Glue" (currently in sandbox) and you can also use Winpooch to detect viruses before they run on your machine (winpooch.free.fr/page/hom…
The firefox extension only manages downlaods via firefox, a workaround you need to do for all program wich make external accesses, like SMB being a major path for viruses.
The Winpooch solution looks more like the way to go. Bookmarked that one, thanks.