[Moodle] OT - Help Please - Anti-Virus Software recommendations?

[Roland Gesthuizen]

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!

Regards Roland

On 27/07/06, Con Zymaris <conz at cyber.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:59:31AM +1000, Keith Richardson wrote:
> > Please forgive cross-posts.
> > Hello everyone.
> > We have an anti-virus software crisis and I would appreciate any advice
> > possible.
> > We have been using VET but they are forcing a change on us that is not
> > compatible so we need to look elsewhere.
> > Here is the QUESTION posed by my technician:
> >
> > "Anti virus question to those members of the group that have Novell file
> > servers with XP workstations.
> >  What antivirus solution do you have in place with server based updates?
> >  How efficient is this?
> >  Does it affect network performance, if not what speed does network run
> > at?
> >  Any recomendations for a low grade network?
>
>
> Keith,
>
> Before you make a decision, trial ClamAV and ClamWin.
>
> You can use Clam on many servers as a server-based AV, scanning incoming
> mail etc:
>
> http://www.clamav.net/
>
> You can use Clam Win on all your Windows PCs, including XP:
>
> http://www.clamwin.com/
>
> Features:
>
>   - High detection rates for viruses and spyware;
>   - Scanning Scheduler;
>   - Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database.
>   - Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft
>     Windows Explorer;
>   - Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments
>     automatically.
>
> Clam AV and Clam Win are both free and open source.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Con Zymaris
>
> - CEO, Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
> - Director, Open Source Industry Australia, Limited.
> - Convenor, Open Source Victoria (A Government-funded industry cluster.)
>
> --
>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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