Anyone used ClamWin AV here?
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I recently purchased a new pc and my Norton AV is about to expire. (yeah) Anyway, I'm using Kapersky on my LT and I like it, I'm simply looking for a viable alternative. How does the CP Community feel about ClamWin - a Open Source alternative? Thanks. :)
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I recently purchased a new pc and my Norton AV is about to expire. (yeah) Anyway, I'm using Kapersky on my LT and I like it, I'm simply looking for a viable alternative. How does the CP Community feel about ClamWin - a Open Source alternative? Thanks. :)
i use it on my 32bit win7 but it's not the fastest or the best even tho i think it's good enough avoid any temptation to try avast it's absolute cr*p
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I recently purchased a new pc and my Norton AV is about to expire. (yeah) Anyway, I'm using Kapersky on my LT and I like it, I'm simply looking for a viable alternative. How does the CP Community feel about ClamWin - a Open Source alternative? Thanks. :)
I have installed clamwin on several machines as a second AV client since the free version it does not have a service. On some vm systems (where the extra overhead of an AV would slow things down too much) it's actually the only AV. In any case I just have it do scans periodically.
John
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I have installed clamwin on several machines as a second AV client since the free version it does not have a service. On some vm systems (where the extra overhead of an AV would slow things down too much) it's actually the only AV. In any case I just have it do scans periodically.
John
Hey John, you're neck deep in *nix environments at work, I have a question for ya. Do you guys use Active Directory? Any MS solution for infrastructure? If you're going the *nix route, what are you using? I'm really interested because day by day I'm finding myself going down that road. Cheers
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Hey John, you're neck deep in *nix environments at work, I have a question for ya. Do you guys use Active Directory? Any MS solution for infrastructure? If you're going the *nix route, what are you using? I'm really interested because day by day I'm finding myself going down that road. Cheers
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Do you guys use Active Directory?
No active directory at all in the department. No MS servers at all. Samba NT domain. Multiple domain controllers each with multiple openldap servers. No user shares on the domain controllers. Domain controllers exist as guests under VPCs. All 7 or so 64 bit file servers are also VPS hosts. All servers have a linux software raid (5 or 6) arrays between 1TB and 5TB using 7200 RPM SATA (1 or 2) disks from 250GB to 1TB. The os is on the same drives but on a second raid array. LVM is used on each system for data storage. MSDFS is used on the samba servers so that the users can access a single network drive but have access to data that is scattered amongst 10+ raid arrays.
John
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I recently purchased a new pc and my Norton AV is about to expire. (yeah) Anyway, I'm using Kapersky on my LT and I like it, I'm simply looking for a viable alternative. How does the CP Community feel about ClamWin - a Open Source alternative? Thanks. :)
I used Clamwin for a while but stopped because it started popping up giant "Buy Now!" dialogs. And also it doesn't (or didn't back then) have an on-access scanner. Then I went to Avast, and used that for a while. I've installed it on numerous machines over the years and never had a problem with it. It auto-updates regularly and I never noticed a performance hit when using the on-access scanner. However, I am now trying out Microsoft Security Essentials and so far I'm quite impressed. It's unobtrusive, quiet and simple. I have yet to test its ability to find viruses, so I can't comment on it's effectiveness just yet...
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I used Clamwin for a while but stopped because it started popping up giant "Buy Now!" dialogs. And also it doesn't (or didn't back then) have an on-access scanner. Then I went to Avast, and used that for a while. I've installed it on numerous machines over the years and never had a problem with it. It auto-updates regularly and I never noticed a performance hit when using the on-access scanner. However, I am now trying out Microsoft Security Essentials and so far I'm quite impressed. It's unobtrusive, quiet and simple. I have yet to test its ability to find viruses, so I can't comment on it's effectiveness just yet...
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I have used Clamwin as a recovery tool (on cd) but not on a live system, I've always used AVG (free version)and found it to be good. The only time you get popups is when the core needs upgrading once or twice a year and you can choose the free version again.
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Do you guys use Active Directory?
No active directory at all in the department. No MS servers at all. Samba NT domain. Multiple domain controllers each with multiple openldap servers. No user shares on the domain controllers. Domain controllers exist as guests under VPCs. All 7 or so 64 bit file servers are also VPS hosts. All servers have a linux software raid (5 or 6) arrays between 1TB and 5TB using 7200 RPM SATA (1 or 2) disks from 250GB to 1TB. The os is on the same drives but on a second raid array. LVM is used on each system for data storage. MSDFS is used on the samba servers so that the users can access a single network drive but have access to data that is scattered amongst 10+ raid arrays.
John
I would assume you use Samba to provide easier access for MS clients? Otherwise, I don't see why something like 389 Directory Server or OpenLDAP is not used.
John M. Drescher wrote:
Domain controllers exist as guests under VPCs
Why Virtual PCs? The reason I ask is because I'm planning on moving my network to a linux based one.
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I would assume you use Samba to provide easier access for MS clients? Otherwise, I don't see why something like 389 Directory Server or OpenLDAP is not used.
John M. Drescher wrote:
Domain controllers exist as guests under VPCs
Why Virtual PCs? The reason I ask is because I'm planning on moving my network to a linux based one.
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Not virtual PCs I use openvz containers: http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page[^] And linux-vserver: http://linux-vserver.org/Welcome_to_Linux-VServer.org[^] I am also investigating lxc becuase openvz is becoming more of a RedHat only http://lxc.sourceforge.net/[^] Basically the idea is for some tasks create a small isolated server that contains only one task. The BDC is a BDC only. The PDC is a PDC only. The webserver is only a webserver. The cvs/svn server only does that. The database server only serves databases. And then with these isolated guests I can migrate them to any of my physical servers in the event of a hardware failure or our needs change so that a task requires more or less cpu.
John
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I have used Clamwin as a recovery tool (on cd) but not on a live system, I've always used AVG (free version)and found it to be good. The only time you get popups is when the core needs upgrading once or twice a year and you can choose the free version again.
I've used the Free AVG for a few years then I even purchased 3 licenses for my former setup. I switched to Kapersky to try something different for them. I might actually try AVG-Free Edition again. This PC is just a 'temp' PC and I don't want to spend a ton of money on some AV. I've already used the Open Source "Norton Ghost" alternative (http://clonezilla.org/[^]) to backup the entire image if something goes really bad or the system gets bloated by something. So recovery is a cinch. I might just go back to AVG Free and give it another spin. :)
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I used Clamwin for a while but stopped because it started popping up giant "Buy Now!" dialogs. And also it doesn't (or didn't back then) have an on-access scanner. Then I went to Avast, and used that for a while. I've installed it on numerous machines over the years and never had a problem with it. It auto-updates regularly and I never noticed a performance hit when using the on-access scanner. However, I am now trying out Microsoft Security Essentials and so far I'm quite impressed. It's unobtrusive, quiet and simple. I have yet to test its ability to find viruses, so I can't comment on it's effectiveness just yet...
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Avast has done me very well as an anti-virus suite. No problems here
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Not virtual PCs I use openvz containers: http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page[^] And linux-vserver: http://linux-vserver.org/Welcome_to_Linux-VServer.org[^] I am also investigating lxc becuase openvz is becoming more of a RedHat only http://lxc.sourceforge.net/[^] Basically the idea is for some tasks create a small isolated server that contains only one task. The BDC is a BDC only. The PDC is a PDC only. The webserver is only a webserver. The cvs/svn server only does that. The database server only serves databases. And then with these isolated guests I can migrate them to any of my physical servers in the event of a hardware failure or our needs change so that a task requires more or less cpu.
John
Thanks John. I'll read up on the stuff and get back to you if I have any more questions and if you don't mind.
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I recently purchased a new pc and my Norton AV is about to expire. (yeah) Anyway, I'm using Kapersky on my LT and I like it, I'm simply looking for a viable alternative. How does the CP Community feel about ClamWin - a Open Source alternative? Thanks. :)
I don't use Windows much at home anymore. When I did, I used AVG. Most of the time it was more than enough. One of the things I did like about it was I didn't find it to be a huge resource hog like some others. Lately, I stumbled upon Comodo AntiVirus. I don't know how good or bad it is, but I figured I'd throw another option out there for you to investigate.