[nylug-talk] Trend Micro sues Barracuda over ClamAV

[Ron Guerin]

Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2008 12:52 PM, Ron Guerin <ron at vnetworx.net> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Umm, clamwin?  There are a whole bunch of ClamAV on WinXX projects.  I
> even built some from source :-)  ClamAV was bought last year
> though...sourcefire iirc

And as I already said, none of them do realtime AV, including ClamWin.

- Ron