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One class of software which I thought will remain the stronghold of commercial companies are the Anti-Virus softwares.

ClamWin Antivirus is one of the better open source anti-virus program invading that
stronghold. I decided to check it out after reinstall Win XP on my
desktop.

My first impression after looking at the main screen of the program is that it still have a long way to catch up with commercial equivalents.

There is a insecure feeling that it might not catch that virus that will wipe out my system. But with nothing to lose on this desktop system, it gets to stay on as the system’s virus sentry.

On its first try, it spotted a vb virus on a friends usb thumbdrive, so it works!

Despite the spartan look it is has fairly complete features.

• file scanning
  speed is rather slow (no quantitiave data though but does seems slower)
  Nice animation.
• online virus database update
  initial database took a while to download, subsequent updates are fast and simple.
• Nice set of preference

Wish List

• scanning on file access, download
• clean, recover file
• integration with email scanning
  There is a another project on Sourceforge that provides this but it is not sure if they work together

ClamWin is based on the ClamAV antivirus engine. Harnessing the power of the community, the concept of an opensource virus directory look set to takeover the commercial counterpart.

Where to get it?

http://www.clamwin.com/
Current version: 0.83
Function: Windows Anti virus scanner