How good of Anti-Virus is ClamWin?

[littlebits]

Yes BitDefender used 7 processes,

bdss.exe
bdmcon.exe
vsserv.exe
livesrv.exe
xcommsvr.exe
bdnagen.exe
bdswitch.exe

Yes I have a lot of data on my hard drive, 30.1 GB and I've tried many on-demand scanners including Norton, McAfee, AVG, F-prot, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Avast and PC-cillin. Nod32 was the fastest on for my hard drive and Avast was second. Norton and BitDefender took the longest time to scan my hard drive. Everyone's system could give different results, for example most of the anti-virus tests and reviews are done on systems that are pretty much empty. So you really can't depend on those reviews when you have a large hard drive because the results will be different.

Thanks.:icon_thum

[lifehacker]

Interesting. I ussually perform my own tests, and for me BitDefender was by far faster than all of the other ones.

[ccc1005]

Definately gotta go with Kaspersky, they 6.0 Beta just got released, so look for it soon. Its the best AV i have seen so far.

[lifehacker]

Definately gotta go with Kaspersky, they 6.0 Beta just got released, so look for it soon. Its the best AV i have seen so far.

Again, its different for everyone. Some people prefer combinations of different security apps., Others preder one strong one. Some security apps work well on some computers others cause problems. I also use Kaspersky 6 but that does not mean that there is one best AV that rules over all others.

[vixenk]

I find the Bitdefender issue rather strange, myself. On my system, it was the quickest *free* AV to start, didn't slow down file browsing noticeably, and also used the least amount of resources while scanning my main hdd *100 gig* on low priority *a feature I loved about it*, although the scheduled scans did take longer due to their low priority status, they didn't bother me one bit if I was using my computer at the time, so there was no reason to have an issue for the amount of time it took to scan.

It takes different strokes for different folks, though. :)

Oh, I believe someone made mention earlier about Antivir... while I wouldn't suggest it being your main anti-virus, I can vouch that it makes an excellent backup when configured to its maximum settings. :)