[aklug] Re: Windows XP antivirus software

Quoting Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net>:

> Unless something has changed -- and I have 0.94, which appears to be
> the latest stable on Windows -- ClamAV is a user-initiated-only virus
> scanner with email scanning hooks, but is not a full, real-time
> anti-virus solution.
>
> ClamAV does run natively, and it even has a little widget that sits in
> your system tray, but that widget does not represent an active daemon
> that scans every file as you access it (the "dynamic scanning" I was
> referring to), but instead just makes it easy to initiate scans.
>
> It scans emails, but will not scan an executable on startup, for example.
>
> But hey! I just learned something:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamav#Microsoft_Windows
>
>
> Apparently, Winpooch can be used to do the real-time part! I've never
> tried it, but it looks interesting:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winpooch
>
>
> Maybe we should drop this Windows thread; it may be annoying the folks
> who are posting on topic. ;-)
>
> Royce
>
Not to put a damper on your find, but it looks like the developer =20
stopped around June of this year...according to wikipedia, anyway.

Mike B.

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Received on Wed Sep 24 15:34:47 2008