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  • Couldn't really rate support. It did the job on my old Windows 2003 server cleaning out infections I found.
  • Love it. Runs great and very thorough.
  • Excellent software! Very Tnank's! After the famous Dr.Web, IT found and destroyed many more malicious software.
  • Works well with hMailServer.
  • Totally defective waste of time. All warnings and errors. "cannot connect-cannot find file on server- cannot download definition updates" etc.
  • It really lacks of a real-time file system scanner, but it runs flawlessy on a Pentium III 500 MHz system, 96MB and Windows 98. Just amazing!!
    2 users found this review helpful.
  • I'm not a Windows fan and I rarely use it. However, when I do, ClamWin is simply a must-have-installed-and updated. It's not without its flaws, but it's lightweight, has a minimalistic but functional interface, it does its job well, and doesn't stand on your way. Not to mention it's not a "black box", you can have full access on what it does and how (LGPL licence assures that). The lack of a "live" protection is probably the only thing that will keep some users away. However, as long as you scan what you download, you don't really need it. Highly recommended.
    2 users found this review helpful.
  • How to see its source code.??
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • The whole reason I signed up was so I could let you know how great your work is. Love this program and the fact that after all these years you're still hard at it and doing a fantastic job. Thanks!
    3 users found this review helpful.
  • I like it. Just lacks real-time protection and it'd be done. Thank you guys
    3 users found this review helpful.
  • I use ClamWin on XP and W7 boxes as alternative to Malwarebytes free version and ad hoc use of online scanners like virustotal D0T com I find the (presumably shared?) virus database used by ClamWin still gives far, far too many false positives for it to be reliably used as sole or main scanner. Also scanning is very slow compared to the likes of malwarebytes free. That said, the ClamWin front end itself seems to be stable and to operate trouble-free (v.0.98.6). Also I like the absence of (i) a live / memory resident component and (ii) the overly intrusive o/s integration favoured by the big Windows personal antivrus programs which in my experience exhibit too much virus-like behaviour themselves, such as making the machine run as fast as treacle and screwing with the IP/TCP stack irreparably (so I have had to devise a shim which can only fix till next reboot). I would suggest that ClamWin consider reviewing with the underlying virus database maintainers a model under which virus signature updates after say, the first 28 days of program installation are permitted only to subscribers in good standing for an annual fee. Such fee should be nominal only e.g. U S D 10.00 per annum for an individual irrespective of number of installed copies (and some similarly low amount for commercial users) and not more than that cost, otherwise the commercial attractiveness and ethos might be lost. But a very low fee such as this magnified by the extensive user base should enable sufficient resources to be allocated to refining the signature database to eliminate nearly all false positives while at the same time keeping it current. As for ClamWin itself, imo work needs to focus on speeding up the scanning process. (Whether this is in part a function of the signature database - don't know). NOTE TO SOURCEFORGE: optional "Tell Us More" section of review template appears to demand all categories be given a value instead of selectively. This despite the 'Support' not being able to be given a value in this case since never used.
  • Simple and, as far as I can tell, effective. Does its job without considering you (the user) as a threat.
    2 users found this review helpful.
  • Simple and effective.
  • Thanks for your work!
  • Powerful and intuitive. Simply great!
  • awesome work, thank you guys!
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  • That's amazing anti-virus. Light-weight and email support. Can scan all drivers and configure time to auto-scan. Can configure exception and all sort of things. Deacitvate process and malicious programs.
  • useful demand scanner. i also use it with fireclam in firefox to scan my downloads - kinda like ie's smartscreen.
  • Need help! Scan button is not available before and after updates. (Simple english please)
  • SUPER OPEN SOURCE AV AND CLAM AV CLOUD UPDATED, CAN'T BEAT IT! IT IS ON DEMAND SO IT WILL NOT IMPAIR PERFORMANCE BUT ALSO WILL NOT CATCH EVERYTHING UNTIL AFTER IT IS "CHECKED". I SET IT TO RUN A DAILY SCAN ONCE OR TWICE A DAY AND QUARANTINE RESULTS. TO SPEED IT UP IN PREFERENCES I SET IT NOT TO CHECK ZIP FILES AND SET THE MAX FILE SIZE TO 60 MEGS, AND ONLY CHECK THE "C" DRIVE (ROOT), YOUR REQUIREMENTS MAY DIFFER BUT A BAD THING IN A ZIP FILE WILL USUALLY NOT AFFECT SYS SO WHY CHECK, AND LARGE 50-100MB FILES CAN TAKE FOREVER TO CHECK. USE WITH MALWAREBYTES AND YOU ARE SET.
  • If you're like me and you work with "dangerous" software on a regular basis and you cant afford to loose system resources on all-time active agents and bulky av's then this is the way to go, its easy to use, highly customizable and runs on demand. The only downside i found is that for full drive scans it can be a bit slow. Recommended
  • Wow that is an impressive
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Thanks for so usefull software.
    2 users found this review helpful.
  • I have been unable to download Clamwin Free Antivirus thus far despite using several mirrors as well as the direct link. Every attempt to download clamwin-0.97.8-setup.exe thus far has repeatedly ended in the message; "The setup files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy of the program." Has anyone else had a similar experience? Are there any solutions or suggestions? Are the uploaders of the program able to provide an uncorrupted copy of the program for open source access? I am at my wit's end; please help.
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