How good of Anti-Virus is ClamWin?

[joey tribiani]

How good of Anti-Virus is ClamWin? Is this A Good Free Client?Thanks!

[lifehacker]

Its only a small free on demand scanner that has is has pretty terrible identification and signatures. I wouldnt reccomed it at all. If youre looking for a good AV try NOD32, Kaspersky, or BitDefender. Those are the three best AVs. NOD32 has the best heurestics; Kaspersky the best signatures; BitDefender the best OD scanner. NOD32 uses the least resources while BitDefender uses the most. What are your specs? How much protection do you need?

[lifehacker]

Here is a thread that has a lot of AV talk: http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthre...light=programs
Also check out
wilderssecurity.com
av-comperatives.org
And dont use what you get in google results for "best antivirus" because that info will mostly be wrong.

[vixenk]

Another site you might be interested in would be virus.gr. The site is owned by a virus collector that owns one of the world's largest virus collections. He occasionally unleashes samples in his collection on a bunch of anti-viruses to see how well they do at detecting them.

As for Clamwin... I wouldn't really say it's the best of anti-viruses. Like lifehacker said, it's only an on demand scanner *which takes FOREVER to scan* that has crappy detection rates.

As far as free anti-viruses go, I would suggest Bitdefender. Low system resource usage *compared to other free anti-viruses* + real time & scheduled scanning + high detection rates. :)

[Lehk]

i find Avira's Anti-Vir to be quite nice (used to be H+BEDV)

http://www.avira.com/en/products/index.html

uses few resources and i don't have to disable while gaming.

can exclude game executables from file read scanning so AV doesn't slow your loading

[lifehacker]

As far as free anti-viruses go, I would suggest Bitdefender.

BitDefender's free OD scanner is very good. BitDefender actually has probably the best OD scanner out of all the AVs.

i find Avira's Anti-Vir to be quite nice (used to be H+BEDV)

AntiVir is considered by most to be the best free AV. But it only goes that far- the best of the free ones. It's light though but doesn't have support for Adware/Spyware detection. It also doesnt have an email scanner and the heurestics are bad. Ussually it used 4mb when I was testing it but compared to AVs which is light, but when you compare it to Kaspersky 6 (its still in testing and not-released) or NOD32 or even f-prot (uses less resources than AntiVir) which use about the same amount of resources but have much better protection, Anti-vir is just not worth it unless of course youre looking for a free AV.

[SteelerBabe]

i am a avast anti-virus user, it has kept me virus free for 2 years. there are actually alot of good free anti-virus programs out there to choose from. here is a link for avast if anyone want to try it out......http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

[axlman]

Yeah, I use Bitdefender IS. It has Antivirus and it does use quite a bit of resources, but I have 2gb of Memory so I don't notice it much.

[Andrew110]

I like avast myself, I don't notice it's there.

[Lehk]

BitDefender's free OD scanner is very good. BitDefender actually has probably the best OD scanner out of all the AVs.


AntiVir is considered by most to be the best free AV. But it only goes that far- the best of the free ones. It's light though but doesn't have support for Adware/Spyware detection. It also doesnt have an email scanner and the heurestics are bad. Ussually it used 4mb when I was testing it but compared to AVs which is light, but when you compare it to Kaspersky 6 (its still in testing and not-released) or NOD32 or even f-prot (uses less resources than AntiVir) which use about the same amount of resources but have much better protection, Anti-vir is just not worth it unless of course youre looking for a free AV.

AntiVir Does have malware detection
it does scan email
it also is able to detect clients for backdoors like bo2k,
modem dialers,
games,
joke apps (format, deleting c, flipping the screen etc.)

you can also set a list of files and folders not to scan

[lifehacker]

AntiVir Does have malware detection
it does scan email

Are we talking about the Classic edition or the premium edition? The Classic edition (free) does not while the Premium does.

i am a avast anti-virus user, it has kept me virus free for 2 years. there are actually alot of good free anti-virus programs out there to choose from. here is a link for avast if anyone want to try it out......http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Avast is ok, though I would say AntiVir is better. AntiVir has slightly better heurestics. Theyre both just average however when you compare them to other better Avs.

[soundmaster inc]

when i got bitdefender ,troubles started in halo multiplayer,network error appeared (or something i don tremember)i was playing normally for a while and in the middle of the game.boom ,game closed.
when i uninstalled bitdefender the problem was gone.

[Krell]

Any antivirus running real tme scanning or a suite that also monitors network traffic and scripting can interfere with online gaming.

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[soundmaster inc]

as long as i explored defenders settings i didn t saw a solution to this

[pimpinaman]

Unlike some of the folks here I do like clamwin. It is slow on the scanning though. I read about a good program that ties in hand in hand with clamwin called Winpooch. If gives some active protection if you choose to use clamwin. I love the ideas behind open source, so I try to choose FOSS when I can :)