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

[Joel Esler (jesler)]

We make Immunet.  It combines a cloud based detection engine with the offline capability of clamav.   It's extremely effective and free.  

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> On Mar 5, 2017, at 05:46, "Erotavlas_turbo at libero.it" <Erotavlas_turbo at libero.it> wrote:
> 
> 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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