[plug] anti-virus

[Fred Janon]

ClamWin does check for updates and displays a notice to alert you. Then
it redirects you to the download page, once you are done, the update
goes smoothly. The only grief is that you have to reboot.

I just went throught thre process about 10mins ago. I think that's the
first update I got in several months, so it's not bugging me that much.

I do too have a scheduled san at night, it is pretty fast.

Fred

--- Adam Ashley <aashley at adamashley.name> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:21:22 +0930, gavan at iinet.net.au wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> My understanding of ClamAV Win was that it didn't auto-update   
> >> though, is this
> >> still the case?
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >
> > Having looked at the website, I notice that it also doesn't have an
> on-access
> > scanner, which may limit its usefulness to some people.
> > "Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an   
> > on-access real-time
> > scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a
> virus  
> >  or spyware."
> >
> 
> It auto updates its virus definitions just fine. What it doesn't auto
>  
> update in the ClamAV engine/ClamWin interface itself.
> 
> It integrates fine with LookOut for scanning incoming emails but yeah
>  
> no on-access real-time scanning. Which is frankly a good thing as it 
> 
> just one more memory/cpu hog you don't have to turn off.
> 
> Here at the office we just have a scheduled scan set after everyone  
> has gone home and a wall of shame to put up people's name and photo
> if  
> they actually managed to get a virus onto their system.
> 
> Adam
> 
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