[clamav-users] ClamAV comparison

[Michael Jeung]

Greetings,

I'm choosing an anti-virus solution for my latest project and I'm
considering ClamAV.

In my view, ClamAV has a lot of appeal:

   1. Easy to install
   2. Included in most Linux distro's
   3. Free and Open Source

However, A cursory survey of published AV comparisons shows ClamAV being
outperformed by a lot of other (commercial) products.

In particular, I'm talking about articles like this one from 2 years ago:
http://www.csoonline.com/article/2989137/linux/av-test-lab-tests-16-linux-antivirus-products-against-windows-and-linux-malware.html

Or AV comparison sites like this:
https://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/AV/VirusDailyStats


In terms of efficacy, these comparisons seem to rank ClamAV very poorly.  :(

I'm curious if anyone knows the reason why? Are these tests conducted
fairly? Do the commercial products - like Sophos or BitDefender - have
better virus definitions?

Just curious if anyone knows.

Thanks!
Michael