[PLUG] Re: avg software experience?

[Wil Cooley]

On 2005-02-11, Alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 12:05 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> On Thursday 10 February 2005 10:57 am, Mike De La Mater wrote:
>> > I'm looking for alternatives to traditional, burdensome, antivirus
>> > software. Does anyone have experience with AVG at Grisoft .com?
>> 
>> For Windows, AVG can't be beat.  For Linux, ClamAV is a better pick.
>
> F-Secure for Linux catches more viruses than ClamAV.  (Especially
> trojans.)  Getting it is more of a pain than it should be.
>
> ClamAV also has problems with false positives on multi-part rar and zip
> files.  (Claims they are "oversized compressed files". I have had to
> disable that check on scans.)

Of course, if you want enterprise-class virus protection, you should
check out Sophos (http://nakedape.cc/products/software/sophos).  Sophie
is a great 3rd party scanner using the Sophos scanning engine that is a
daemon; I use it in some of my Mail Defender installs.

Wil
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