On 12/27/06, Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> wrote: > IANAWU, but what about the team of ClamWin and Winpooch? ([1]_, [2]_) > ClamWin is the Windows GUI to ClamAntivirus, and Winpooch is the > real-time file monitor that enables clamwin to scan files as they are > accessed, modified, or created. > > Add in Spybot-S&D[3]_, and you should have a killer team against SPAM, > viruses, trojans and spyware! > > .. 1. http://www.clamwin.com > .. 2. http://winpooch.sf.net > .. 3. http://www.safer-networking.org/ Unless ClamWin has significantly improved its performance since 1-1.5 years ago (very possible, 1 year is a long time in the OSS world), I wouldn't recommend it to everyday users. I don't have any real data, but scans were taking significantly longer to run versus commercial products such as Symantec. I also made the mistake of trying the Outlook plugin which brought Outlook to its knees. Hopefully it has improved because it would be great to have a cross platform AV solution that was open source and freely available -- aka clamav. Winpooch looks interesting. Since Chad is NAWU, can anyone else comment on its effectiveness and stability?