ClamWin www.clamwin.com

Clamwin is not such a good antivirus its searches are very slow and it only detects viruses by default you will have to set it to quarantine in order for it to remove infected files. i also did some more testing and found that it only scans one drive. the most convincing tests for me however were when i created a .bat cmd flood script and when i asked clamwin to scan the file it did not detect and threat other antiviruses won't even allow me to save the file in .bat format it is immediately quarantined. The next test was when i had clamwin scan a bunch of very dangerous viruses and trojans that i had sealed away in compressed folders, of the seven it scanned it only managed to detect two viruses. Each compressed folder contained about 20plus variants of viruses. So at best i would give it a 0.9 out of 10. sorry guys but this antivirus is not effective and it does not seem to even provide eal time protection unless you ask it to scan. I would advice anyone who does online shopping, banking or even spends time on the internet to reconsider the use of this AV

I run a gameserver and i had problem with backdoors because of vBulletin vulnerability, i have bought Panda for server and Kaspersky for server that costs both more than 500$ but unfortunately they did not detect any single backdoor, now a friend of mine recommended clamwin and so i downloaded and found out its free!

now after scanning with clamwin it found 15 backdoors including 8 phpspy backdoors!

For me this is the best AV i can use, its free and it detects virus and backdoors that other commercial AV cant.

Thanks clamwin and i hope you keep on improving your AV like real time scan.

I hear everyone talking about the GUI and I always run it from a CLI. I use all the time VIA USB live installer and just test UBUNTU OS install and scan Windows partitions. I have never had much luck using the GUI. Cant beat the price and works for me. Overall I would say 8-10.

Although the product removed one piece of syware it didn't pick up on some sort of pop up that comes along whenever I open the ie browser, I'm also not the only one who has experianced the software reporting perfectly normal program files as virus' as it doesn't give any description of the virus it's also difficult to afirm.

i have unistalled the product as it slows down my lappy to know end, I've also experianced lots of programs crashing since using this product.

Clam win, the windows friendly version of clam AV, has more detail than a command prompt window. However, it has good detection and removal. Overall if you are a pc technician then this is the AV for you. If you are an average joe then go elsewhere. This product is also free.

ClamAV ClamWin maybe not best, but, on balance of resources vs protection, better than most. People who prefer other progs, have resources for it. I tried them all; AVG, Avira, Avast, SAS ... you name it. They ALL hog resources, slow things down terribly after a while ... and I still got infected. I'm very happy with ClamWin, coupled with other freebies.

It's plain no frills nothing fancy, no BS

It sort of reminds of a dos virus scanner that F-prot put out for years... it ran slow as well, but it was thorough and found viruses other programs couldn't find.

Well recommend ClamAV ClamWin.

Free (with optional donation) and stays free

Easy to use scheduler, with different drive scans scheduled at different times.

The entire interface is somewhat barebones, but everything is available via a tab.

Option to email virus scan results (good for scanning servers or infrequently used machines)

Scan on demand only - saves memory - but there is an option to scan web downloads and mail (which takes longer than Norton AV).

Doesn't attempt to block ports, etc (that's what a firewall is for). Assuming you have a firewall, this means you don't have to configure yet another application to let traffic through.

This virus scanner would be ideal for infrequently used Windows machines or servers, or those that rarely have foreign flash drives, CDs, etc put into them. Installation was extremely easy and fast. My one recommendation would be to make sure that there is a separate firewall.

First of all its free and it works very well with systems that rely on more than one anti virus.I prefer to check my system with more than one anti virus and clam win makes an excellent second scanner to check your system with. I give it a ten.

When I look for backups to a system that is vulnerable to attack and the people at clam win provide me with an excellent and very affective free alternative to the paid programs, I take my hat off to them and say thank you.

Less effective in my experience. Norton Security Scan has better detection rates, removes viruses, and also doesn't hog system memory because it, like Clamwin, is an on-demand scanner only."Not very effective when compared to commercial AV but that's only a minor thing."Do recommend ClamAV ClamWin.