experience with clamwin antivirus?

It works really great. Since I work for Microsoft, they say that they recomend Clamwin.

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Clamwin is excellent. It has a pretty small footprint.

Thanks for checking my question, but I was hoping for a little more detail than "works good." Maybe, does it seem to noticeable catch any viruses or worms, especially recent ones? How is it to set up and manage on multiple desktops? How is it on virus updates & automatic updating? How do you feel about using this versus a "name brand" like Symantec or McAfee? Thanks!

ClamWin is great. It works on-demand (as opposed to real-time) so it only scans when you tell it to (or when you schedule it to). The antivirus sign file is updated frequently (the program typically finds an update every day when I have it scheduled to check). I have a 30GB drive with about 20GB used on a 1500MHz celeron laptop, and a full scan takes just under 14 minutes. I have yet to see a false positive in the 6 months I have been using ClamWin. I switched to ClamWin from Grisoft's AVG after getting 3 false positives within a month.

In the environment you described, an on-demand antivirus program should be adequate, and I heartily recommend ClamWin.

We have used Webshield by McAfee for the Small business Enterprise for several years. It is excellent, however Clamwin is also running and it normally finds new viruses before Mcafee!

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