Clamwin and Winpooch

[Cupis]

Hi Guys,

I am busy looking for a free anti-virus for my company. I know about AVG, antivir personal and Avast. All of them however states that it is not for commercial use. Unless someone can correct me?

I do know of open source's Clamwin, which is apparently quite good. Can anyone verify this? It does not have active scanning though which is a downside, but apparently you can use Winpooch which can creat a sort of Active scanning solution.

Winpooch is apparently similar to UAC in the sense that it picks up when a command is trying to change a registry setting. Winpooch will allow you to run an anti-virus in conjunction with it, such as clamwin, and will scan the source of the command which is trying to change registry settings.

Has anyone used these two applications

[Cupis]

Lol, Anyone?

[Ron2K]

I don't think anyone has ever heard of them - at least, I know I haven't.

[Stuart]

Ja, I'm sorry, but everytime I see this topic title I think of . . .

[rustypup]

I am busy looking for a free anti-virus for my company.

can we ask why?

i've seen both in action and neither has impressed me...

[Cupis]

Lol at winni the pooh.
I ask because my management does not want to pay for anti-virus on our external computer clients. Probably because we have about 200 computers, which could mount up to a pretty penny

I can't use the other 'free' anti-virus solutions, as its all for private use? So just wanted to know how other people felt about these two products, or any other open source or free anti-virus. Personally i would choose a commercial brand over open source anti-virus any day.

[rustypup]

given the risks, the cost of a decent, fully licensed and supported, AV is worth its weight in gold... anyone looking to freebie it in the corporate world is woefully ignorant of the risks...

let me know when they're "visited"... i enjoy a good laugh...

my brief tangle with clamav in 2008 says: it's fine if the machine enjoys a low-risk profile, (ie, stored in a closet, offline and never actually used for anything) - this may have changed, but i doubt it...

[Cupis]

Yeah i know, tell me about it.... our department is constantly fighting with them to try purchase better software etc.

I got a quote from Eset for about R16000 for 200 licences, i thought that was not bad. Alas, its R16 k too much

thanks for the input though