[ale] [OT] clam av for windows

[Tim Watts]

On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 22:25 -0500, Ron Frazier wrote:
> If you're friend is running Windows, install Microsoft Security 
> Essentials, free 

Bingo. You said the magic word!

> from Microsoft. 
oh. :-|

But thanks. I'll make sure she has that at least.

> 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.
> >
> >    
>