[nylug-talk] Trend Micro sues Barracuda over ClamAV

[Ron Guerin]

Robert Menes wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2008 3:32 PM, Zach Stern <zach at wordrockets.com> wrote:
> 
>> And we had been reccomending trend micro to all our customers too.
>>
> Now it feels like doing so is worse than eating your own kitten.
> 
> There are Trend Micro AV products on our PCs at my job; time to recommend
> ClamAV instead.

ClamAV is a good piece of software, but last I remember, there was no 
realtime ClamAV implementation for Windows, which severely limits its 
usefulness on that platform.  The problem on a Windows box isn't that 
you might deliberately download something, and that something has a 
virus in it, it's that the bad stuff *is* going to run without anyone 
even being in front of the machine, and you need to catch it before it 
can do any harm.

- Ron