[ale] [OT] clam av for windows

[Ron Frazier]

If you're friend is running Windows, install Microsoft Security 
Essentials, free from Microsoft. This is what most of the security 
experts, including Steve Gibson, are recommending for baseline 
protection. It gets automatically updated with Windows patches. If you 
think she has a virus, you may have to supplement with other products. 
However, if she has a virus, you cannot ever be sure you've cleaned the 
system. You really should backup the data, format the hard drive, and 
reinstall. Be aware that installing multiple AV products simultaneously 
can cause problems. You may have to deinstall the old product first.

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/?mkt=en-us

Ron

On 02/07/2011 10:06 PM, Tim Watts wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 20:48 -0500, Mike Harrison wrote:
>    
>> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Tim Watts wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Anyone have experience with this? Is it a decent product?
>>>        
>> I've used it, under Linux, to remove things from Winders drives.
>> Solved my minor issues... not sure how it does on the really nasty stuff.
>> For them you are often best to wipe and re-install Winders..
>> or wipe (including fdisk/mbr) and Upgrade to Linux ;)
>>
>>      
> Well, upgrading to Linux has a definite appeal for me but my friend
> makes her living with Word so I'd rather not mess with that arrangement.
> She's "pretty sure" she has anti-virus software but doesn't think the
> sigs are up-to-date. I suspect she has some sort of trial version that's
> expired.
>
> After reading more on the web site, Clam for windows doesn't seem quite
> ready for prime time. Seems it only looks at executables but they plan
> to broaden the scope eventually. I don't think the *nix version has this
> limitation so I don't quite understand why this windows version does.
>
>    

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