[clamav-users] R: Re: ClamAV for windows: GUI and chocolatey package

[Erotavlas_turbo at libero.it]

Hi,
whenever it is possible, I prefer to avoid using closed source and proprietary 
software. For this reason, I'm looking for an open source and free (deep sense) 
AV.
I read in your website and on the web that clamAV: includes a number of 
utilities: a command-line scanner, automatic database updater and a scalable 
multi-threaded daemon, running on an anti-virus engine from a shared library.
So I would like to use it as standard AV for several cases including mail 
scanning, real-time file scanning, web protection as standard AV does.
I know that exist several components for windows as: clamwin, clamsentinel and 
firefox addon fireclam.
Since all are based on clamAV, I wonder to know if you are thinking about 
making an official client with all those capabilities.
Considering that exist several proprietary solutions with freeware version 
based on clamAV (e.g. Immunet).

Thank you,
Salvatore


>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: "G.W. Haywood" <clamav at jubileegroup.co.uk>
>Data: 04/03/2017 18.26
>A: <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>
>Ogg: Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV for windows: GUI and chocolatey package
>
>Hi there,
>
>On Sat, 4 Mar 2017, Erotavlas_turbo at libero.it wrote:
>
>> I'm an user of clamAV on linux and I would like to use it on windows.
>
>You need to tell us how and preferably why you want to use it.  My
>guess is that you are going to have to do a lot of work to achieve
>your objectives, and that even when you have achieved them they will
>do very little for you.
>
>> Is there any way to have working clamAV on windows together with GUI?
>
>Perhaps you can explain how this GUI will be used, I know nothing
>about it.  My personal preference is to try not to use them.  My own
>use of ClamAV is to scan email messages, as they are transported over
>an Internet connection, using third-party signature databases.  There
>is no requirement for any GUI in that scenario.  While I find ClamAV
>very useful in that particular application, I do not see it as being
>especially useful for anything else.  Although on-demand scanning of
>file server data might be another good use case, there are probably
>more effective packages than ClamAV with which to do that.
>
>-- 
>
>73,
>Ged.
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