We always knew that ClamAV was a wonderful open source project. Many open source projects that are as large as the ClamAV anti-virus project typically have 90% of what end users want and 100% of what they need most. However, a really interesting contest was sponsored by LinuxWorld that tested a variety of open and closed source products. Guess which product was one of only three that caught 100% of the viruses tested? That’s right, ClamAV!

As far as I’m concerned, the only feature ClamAV is missing right now is a realtime filesystem scanner that Symantec and some of the others have. Of course, no one would ever need this if they simply didn’t use Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Windows in general, but everyone knows that won’t happen any time soon.

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