Thanks heaps Con .. one of my students came in this week rather upset, lugging his home CPU under his arm. I had helped him to build up a personal computer in the hours after school from scrap and spare bits. Tragically, he made a mess of cleaning off a virus that he had downloaded onto his Windows partition. It will be great to recommend a free Antivirus option as the commercial solutions that I had originally suggested were all out of his budget. The ClamAV team deserves a medal for their efforts to make this kind of software freely available!
<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 27/07/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Con Zymaris</b> <<a href="mailto:conz@cyber.com.au">conz@cyber.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:59:31AM +1000, Keith Richardson wrote:<br>> Please forgive cross-posts.<br>> Hello everyone.<br>> We have an anti-virus software crisis and I would appreciate any advice<br>> possible.
<br>> We have been using VET but they are forcing a change on us that is not<br>> compatible so we need to look elsewhere.<br>> Here is the QUESTION posed by my technician:<br>><br>> "Anti virus question to those members of the group that have Novell file
<br>> servers with XP workstations.<br>> What antivirus solution do you have in place with server based updates?<br>> How efficient is this?<br>> Does it affect network performance, if not what speed does network run
<br>> at?<br>> Any recomendations for a low grade network?<br><br><br>Keith,<br><br>Before you make a decision, trial ClamAV and ClamWin.<br><br>You can use Clam on many servers as a server-based AV, scanning incoming
<br>mail etc:<br><br> <a href="http://www.clamav.net/">http://www.clamav.net/</a><br><br>You can use Clam Win on all your Windows PCs, including XP:<br><br> <a href="http://www.clamwin.com/">http://www.clamwin.com/</a><br>
<br> Features:<br><br> - High detection rates for viruses and spyware;<br> - Scanning Scheduler;<br> - Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database.<br> - Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft
<br> Windows Explorer;<br> - Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments<br> automatically.<br><br>Clam AV and Clam Win are both free and open source.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Con Zymaris<br><br>- CEO, Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
<br>- Director, Open Source Industry Australia, Limited.<br>- Convenor, Open Source Victoria (A Government-funded industry cluster.)<br><br>--<br>___________________________________________________________________________
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