[clamav-users] Which anti-virus do you prefer on Linux desktop?

[Dennis Peterson]

On 1/1/15 10:26 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote:
> I think the answer you are going to get from the ClamAV list is ClamAV.
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> Joel Esler
> Open Source Manager
> Threat Intelligence Team Lead
> Talos
>
>
It is also worth pointing out to n00bs and old timers alike this tag line from 
the ClamAV home page:


      "The Standard

ClamAV is the open source standard for mail gateway scanning software."


One needs to keep this in mind when doing comparisons with other software 
packages and when comparing ClamAV in usages other than mail gateway scanning 
else you may be comparing apples and ducks. Statistics without test methods are 
useless. Statistics that don't reveal false positives are dodgy. Statistics that 
don't indicate signature vs heuristics matching are not particularly helpful. 
I'm never impressed with products that detect viruses at the desktop level 
anyway because it means the firewall has failed.

I like that ClamAV also finds spam and other non-malware content in real time at 
the mail gateway. How do the other ducks compare at that feature?

dp