Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine:clamav?

From: "John Nielsen" <listsjnielsen.net>

> On Saturday 29 April 2006 09:06, Jim Stapleton wrote:
>> Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad,
Ugly?
>>
>> Should I use something else, or is the only good
alternative
>> pay/expensive (such as avast)?
>> Am I better at leaving the antivirus stuff to the
Windows machine
>> (which has McAfee Enterprise)?
> 
> I use ClamAV to scan all incoming e-mail on my
mailserver with very good 
> results.  I haven't ever used it as a file-scanner but
I imagine it would 
> serve adequately.
> 
> I frequently use AVG antivirus as well.  Their
"free" edition is free to 
> download and use at home on a single computer.  See http://free.grisoft.com 
> for more info.  The non-free versions are more
reasonably priced and (IMO) 
> in some ways superior to the other Windows AV products
I've used, most 
> notably in ease-of-use and staying up-to-date.

I have enabled the Earthlink AV blocker. I run SpamAssassin
here with
the ClamAV plugin. Then I run F-Secure on the main machine
and Norton
on the second machine. I figure defense in depth is a fairly
good thing.

{^_^}   Joanne
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