ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.96.4 Released

[paf]

ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.96.4 Released

Change log:

Friday, 19 November 2010
This release updates ClamAV scanning engine and fixes a few important issues:

* Fixed an issue with false positive detection
* Improvements in signature database loading time

About ClamWin Free Antivirus:

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista / XP / Me / 2000 / 98 and Windows Server 2008 and 2003.

It comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It features:

* High detection rates for viruses and spyware;
* Scanning Scheduler;
* Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database.
* Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer;
* Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically.

The latest version of Clamwin Free Antivirus is 0.96.4

Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.

ClamWin Free Antivirus is based on ClamAV engine and uses GNU General Public License by the Free Software Foundation, and is free (as in freedom) software.

ClamWin Free Antivirus uses ClamAV Scanning Engine

[JayCub]

Thank you Paf, i have never used ClamWin to be honest and wonder how it really fares out....

[hellnoire]

Thank you Paf, i have never used ClamWin to be honest and wonder how it really fares out....

Slow to update, lots of FPs, and lots of new threats that are missed. Along with a gawdly ugly interface... if I were you, I'd skip it.

[Boyfriend]

Thanks paf for sharing update info ClamWin is very basic solution with lot of FPs. I will skip it too.

[JayCub]

Thank you Paul, more or less came across the same views about ClamWin along with some uninstall issues...thanks again Paf

[INDRANIL]

Thanks For the info . I'll pass it .

[leofelix]

Tested against some known TDSS rootkits: ClamWin didn't detect the most of them.

I also got a "wonderful" BSOD caused by an Alureon/TDSS rootkit sample (which I installed on purpose) as expected.
I could get rid of them thanks to NovirusThanks Antirootkit 1.1 (do note: Avira, HitMan Pro and MalwareBytes' Antimalware detected all rootkit samples as well)

[Ceyfer √]

See bad/resolved issue update.

Friday, 19 November 2010
This release updates ClamAV scanning engine and fixes a few important issues:

* Fixed an issue with false positive detection

-Reports started pouring in earlier today on the official forums, with users complaining that, following scheduled scans, the program moved up to 25,000 clean files to the quarantine.
-(0.96.4) was released to resolve the false positive detection and an utility for restoring the quarantined files was also made available.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bad-C...s-167694.shtml