Michael DeBusk wrote:
> Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
> 
>> I saw your mention of Clam Antivirus. H ope you don't mind a few 
>> questions about it.
> 
> I mis-spoke. It was AVG Antivirus I intended to mention. It's one of the
> first things I add to a new Windows install. Light, effective, and free.
> 
> I recently cleaned up an XP Home laptop for a friend of my girlfriend,
> and AVG found dozens of instances of malware that Norton had let
> through. Ever since Symantec bought out Peter Norton's company, their
> stuff just hasn't been anywhere near as good.
> 
> I find no mention of OS/2 executables for AVG. I've heard that ClamAv is
> extremely good, though, and is Open Source; perhaps one might ask Paul
> Smedley to take a look at it and see if he could get it working.
> 
> In all my years of running OS/2, I never wished for an antivirus
> program. Has something changed recently?
> 
Yuri Dario has been porting it for awhile, expressly for use with 
email (though it can scan harddrives too).  It is available on hobbes.
Andy


 
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