[ale] [OT] good FREE windisease anti-virus software

[Jeff Hubbs]

I can't speak to effectiveness of virus catching, but ClamAV running in 
daemon mode can light up all eight cores on the file server I built at 
work and scan for viruses at over 200MiB/s.

On 2/13/10 1:09 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> The $0 solutions work marginally in my past practice. If someone 
> _must_ use a microsoft OS, they need a well designed and extremely 
> well supported AV solution. The absolute best one I have found also 
> happens to be extremely affordable.
>
> http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/win/
>
> The home use f-prot anti-virus tool has the engine and definitions 
> that many of the other AV products license for their own product. For 
> $30/year the home owner can use the tool on up to 5 systems 
> simultaneously (so $6/year/system). If more than 5 systems need 
> protection, get the corporate version for $50/year and up to 10 machines.
>
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:48 PM, <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu 
> <mailto:krwatson at cc.gatech.edu>> wrote:
>
>     > -----Original Message-----
>     > From: ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>
>     [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>] On
>     Behalf Of m-
>     > aaron-r
>     > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 21:43
>     > To: ALE
>     > Subject: [ale] [OT] good FREE windisease anti-virus software
>     >
>     >
>     > Google shows up strong on ClamWin, and AVG shows up
>     > as a "free" closed source offering, but I'd be happy to be
>     > educated on the strengths of either as well as any other
>     > options out there.
>     >
>     > Lili and I thank you in advance for any and all suggestions!
>     >
>     > peace
>     > aaron
>
>     Aaron,
>
>     At the risk of being flamed have you considered Microsoft's free
>     solution?
>
>     http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/
>
>     And to prevent third degree burns I'll also offer the following:
>
>     Avira
>     http://www.free-av.com/
>
>     Avast
>     http://www.avast.com/index
>
>     AVG
>     http://www.avg.com/us-en/homepage
>
>     BitDefender
>     http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-14-en--BitDefender-Free-Edition.html
>
>     ClamAV
>     http://www.clamav.net/
>
>     MailScanner
>     http://www.mailscanner.info/
>
>     List of antivirus software
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_antivirus_software
>
>     Now were did I put my Nomex?
>     keith
>
>     --
>
>     Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
>     Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
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