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I also would prefer to use Clamav over a non open source app

As good as some open source software is, I have a significantly different and higher criterion for things that relate to security: How well does it actually work?

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The average product detected 86.95 percent, the median 90.97 percent....

ClamAV 387,276 63.81%

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2135092,00.asp

Needless to say, ClamAV isn't my first choice in Windows AV software. But ClamWin is nice and portable. FWIW, closed source BitDefender's detection rate was 95.68%. But like I said, I have different criteria for how I keep Windows computers safe. Maybe that's why I don't have the kind of trouble your friends and family do.

Well they are more paranoid about it, they get the idea that they have a virus and complain about it until I go out and scan their computer. Clamav is good enough for me to scan their PCs quickly.

Good enough for you or good enough to detect viruses? I just added more about the issue on my blog. Including a site that does weekly tests:

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ClamAV in this past week’s test wasn’t the worst by far, but it detected 17% of viruses. Compare that to other AV programs that beat it in the other test I linked. BitDefender detected 51% — triple the rate of ClamAV.

http://lucky13linux.wordpress.com/2008....inciple

Funny ClamAV scored in the top three in LinuxWorld's "Fight Club"
http://www.darkreading.com/documen....news1_1
http://virus.untangle.com/

Funny, that was the one with conflicts of interest: untangle.com peddles clamav. That's why I linked to independent studies. :-)

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