Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

[Martin Hepworth]

I use Clamav on my mail gateway (along with Sophos) and it works very well,
quite a few times catching new virus outbreaks quicker than Sophos.  (All
wrapped up with MailScanner which also calls SpamAssassin for me).

BUT email/http isn't the only way to infect a windows PC so you really to
have a solution where the problem is - on the PC. Perimeter AV solutions for
Windows don't go anywhere near solving the problem.

There's http://www.clamwin.com/, or many commercial solutions that aren't
too expensive, AVG do a 'free' home solution.

www.f-prot.com is the one I use at work.

Kapersky is good also....

--
Martin

On 4/29/06, Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad, Ugly?
>
> Should I use something else, or is the only good alternative
> pay/expensive (such as avast)?
> Am I better at leaving the antivirus stuff to the Windows machine
> (which has McAfee Enterprise)?
>
> Background:
> System lags occasionally, and has crashed a few times, and is getting
> disk errors (both HDs, one IDE, one SATA started this at the same
> time). I suspect the motherboard, but can't be certain, could be Mem
> or PSU.
>
> Could also be virus.
>
> So, I want to scan my backed up files while reinstalling Windows on
> the other machine, before letting them go back home to play.
>
> Thanks
> -Jim
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