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ClamAV For Windows Open Beta Begins
An anonymous reader writes "The public beta for ClamAV for Windows 3.0, which includes full integration of the ClamAV engine into the Immunet Protect product, is now open. If you are interested in playing with ClamAV for Windows 3.0, please see these forums. 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available for download. ClamAV for Windows should not be confused with ClamWin, a separate project."
Will it run on Windows 3.1 as well?
From TFA "ClamAV 3.0 for Windows Open Beta", not "ClamAV for Windows 3.0" as the summary states.
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Shouldn't it be titled ClamAV 3.0 for Windows? I doubt its for Windows 3.0.
Could someone enlighten us what the Immunet product is? Their web page is so full of cloud computing and other buzzwords that I can't see what's different from other vendors tools
And what this ClamAV thing is? One word or two maybe?
Sure, it's something to make fun of, Windows 3.0 and all that. But advertising an anti virus product beta on Slashdot's main page? C'mon.
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People waiting to follow the only worthy upgrade from XP want to know ;)
ClamAV is an open source anti-virus. That's a pretty big deal, considering it is the only one. Or at least, the only one that is complete and still maintained.
Were you being sarcastic, or did I miss a joke?
This software will not run on Windows 3.0
"ClamAV for Windows should not be confused with ClamWin, a separate project." and to those of us that know nothing of either it should not be confused with regular clams that taste great with a little melted butter.
Seriously I know that submissions aren't edited but telling us what ClamAV does/is would be helpful.
The clamAV engine is designed for scanning incoming email. These days any sensibly configured email system deletes all email with any forum of executable attachment before it gets anywhere near the end users so email scanning is a bit of a niche market.
The ClamAV engine may be good at email scanning but that does not mean it is good for general malware scanning. Clamwin, which uses the clamAV engine in a general windows malware/virus scanner has very poor detection compared to the top few antivirus packages (Eset Nod32, AVG, kaspersky, avira paid version, panda).
Malware delivered via the web is the main source of the epidemic of crap on the windows platform these days. In geek circles I feel like a suspected plague carrier because I carry a windows laptop instead of running ubuntu or carrying an apple.
I do nearly all my browsing in windows virtual machines. The basic firefox only VM is little trouble. A vm with flash player, Sun java, acrobat reader, dotnet addon etc results in the "whats all this network traffic, shit the VM is sending spam" or "popups WTF?" every few months, followed by going back to a known good copy of the VM and redownloading lots of updates.
Over that last year I'v uploaded a couple of dozen malware .exe's from the web to virustotal, (mostly attempts to exploit user ignorance that didn't getting running on my machine eg desirable-file.pdf.exe). I keep the exe's and check how long it takes for AV companies to add detection. Kaspersky and AVG usually add detections within 36 hours, avira is usually "next day" provided next day is monday-friday.
Half the time Clamwin does not detect the malware and typically takes a couple of weeks to start detecting my sample if they get it at all.
I have little confidence in another package using the clamAV engine doing any better.
Also the ony real cleanup response for malware arriving by email is 'delete', removing malware that has installed itself into windows takes much more work. A of people rely on antivirus software to clean up messy infections instead of being organised enough to have current backups and known-good images of every machine.
A way cooler project might be to backport all those nice new viruses to run on Windows 3.x. Just think of all those people who are missing out.
Just repaired a computer that had ClamAV installed.
It missed multiple trojans that Microsoft Security Essentials found.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Scanning files with ClamWin is about as fast as reading them yourself with a hex editor. I use Avast.
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I bet that's actually really fast.
that there was a 64 bit version of Windows 3.0!
The Immunet Community has over 0 members protected from 0 threats.
Whatever it is they do, the Immunet Community appears to rely too much on Javascript.
I've been using ClamWin (http://www.clamwin.com) for years without any problems. Does anyone know the difference?
For Windows, aye? What else would an antivirus program be for???
Where does this leave/put ClamWin then? I stopped using ClamWin because of the rising False Positives count, but then discovered all anti-virus manufacturers were suffering the same thing: the shitness of Windows.
Nowadays I just cautiously install and re-image from a backup every now and again.
A good free scanner would be good if the reliability is there (again).
So, now here comes the interesting tidbit of pedantry. A .doc file cannot, I repeat cannot, contain a macro.
What?!? You have no idea what you are talking about! Please don't spread silly misinformation like this.
Wake me up when they have on-access scanning working. And preferably fast enough not to bring the system to a grinding halt when starting up a moderately large binary (admittedly, a lot of commercial vendors would fail that test too).
All I could find is that it gives you "the advanced protection of the cloud". That sounds really awesome, and I think I must need it desperately. Probably you too.
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Immunet is a lightweight client that runs on the Desktop, the AV is done "in the cloud" as opposed to running a gigantic fat client and downloading daily updates. As a result, it's faster, adapts faster, and allows for worldwide correlation.
Sounds like the perfect datamining operation... I wonder if they are gonna go Google and make it a free service, and sell analytics data. That would be a great business model, if they have a decent privacy policy. Hell, I think you could try the same trick and OEM Ubuntu machines, and have click-through EULA during the configuration phase (not too convulted, we want to be fair now - the lusers won't even glance at it anyway). Send tracking data for a limited period (and make tracking removal reasonably easy enough - those who bother to remove it are not gonna rack up too many support calls anyway), in return, you get to license legitimate codecs, and free support.
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