[nycbug-talk] windows anti-virus suggestions

[Mikel King]

On Jan 24, 2006, at 1:46 PM, George Georgalis wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:27:09AM -0800, pete wright wrote:
>> On 1/24/06, George Georgalis <george at galis.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:05:35PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
>>>> On 24 Jan 2006 at 12:55, Isaac Levy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> With some recent fun in an office I'm working at, I'm shopping  
>>>>> around
>>>>> for a good anti-virus software to use on a fistfull of windows  
>>>>> machines.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone on this list have any good recommendations for  
>>>>> products/
>>>>> services?
>>>>
>>>> AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/
>>>>
>>>> I use http://www.grisoft.com/doc/289/lng/us/tpl/tpl01
>>>
>>> I thought everyone used clamav.net I think it's perl
>>> but I'm not sure if it runs _on_ windows machines.
>>>
>>

http://www.clamwin.com/  Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does  
not include an on-access real-time scanner, that is, you need to  
manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware. Microsoft  
Outlook Addin, however will delete a virus-infected attachment  
automatically.

>> i don't think it run's under windows (which may be a good thing) but
>> you can always export your volumes that users are allowed to write to
>> and have a dedicated *BSD box scan that.
>
> I never really understood the scan volumes feature, I'd say scan
> before exchange... but maybe people download viruses other ways, I
> cannot imagine them not getting opened before a scan if they where
> downloaded by IE
>
> // George


There are those lovely viruses that propagate through user writable  
volumes. The are rare now a days, because most people do not leave  
their systems that open anymore.