[clamav-win32] Clam for W32 updates? Forgotten project?

[Bret Miller]

On 1/22/2009 11:41 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote:
> On 1/22/09 12:16 PM, Rob McEwen wrote:
>   
>> Bret Miller wrote:
>>     
>>> Try here: http://oss.netfarm.it/clamav
>>>       
>> I'm confused about all the different versions... and not all of them
>> work as well as others. I needed a native win32 version that was
>> stable... and the one that Bret links to above is the _only_ one I was
>> able to find that satisfied that criteria. All the others (which I could
>> find) either were not stable, or were running in unix emulation mode
>> (cygwin). (not saying there isn't another stable win32 version... I may
>> not have tried them all... but, at the time I tested, this was the only
>> one that didn't crash frequently.)
>>
>>     
>
> I've been getting reports from my users that ClamAV/SOSDG performs just 
> as well or performs better then the native Win32 version.
>
> http://www.sosdg.org/clamav-win32
>
> It may not be the most optimal way to run clamav, but I know of several 
> major ISPs that do use my build in production environments very happily.
>   
To be fair, I've rarely had problems with the SOSDG build. I just prefer 
to run native when there is one that is stable and up-to-date. ClamAV 
performance has never been a real issue on our mail server (can anyone 
say "SpamAssassin"?). Stability has, at times been an issue, so we've 
used most of the Windows builds at one time or another. I currently 
prefer the one I just recommended (http://oss.netfarm.it/clamav), but 
the SOSDG and tBB builds also work well. I haven't tested all the latest 
build, but in the last few, clamd seems reasonably stable in these three 
up-to-date builds.

Each build has its idiosyncrasies, so pay attention to the command-line 
arguments and configuration files when switching builds.

Bret