Andrew Lee wrote:Used Avast, switched to Comodo, now using Microsoft Security Essentials.
Same here on my laptop, replacing the
Comodo step with
Avira... But I got fed up with the false positives, made worse by the absence of easy options to bypass. Currently compounded with free
Winpatrol, which alerts me right away about critical system changes. It's been years since I got infected...
On my home desktop, wich acts pretty much as an intermittent server, I run portable
Sentinel to make
ClamWin resident; it takes some fiddling but I haven't had any problems in over a year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clam_AntiVirus wrote:In a Shadowserver six-month test between June and December 2011
ClamAV detected over 75.45% of all viruses tested, putting it in fourth place behind
AhnLab,
Avira,
BitDefender and
Avast.
AhnLab, the top antivirus, detected 80.28%.
In case anyone's interested, here's my
freshclam.conf content, necessary to keep virus definitions updated by downloading online:
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DatabaseDirectory ..\db
DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net
UpdateLogFile ..\log\ClamUpdateLog.txt
LogVerbose yes
NotifyClamd .\ClamWin.conf
Foreground yes
Keep inside the
bin folder (or wherever you placed your
ClamWin and
Sentinel executables) and run
freshclam.exe to update...