ClamWin Free Antivirus

ClamWin Free Anti virus is an open source code which is an anti virus toolkit for UNIX and very easy to install as well. ClamWin Free Antivirus is a free anti-virus program for windows7/vista/xp/me/2000/98and windows server 2008and 2003.

ClamWin Free Antivirus is based on ClamAV engine (which is a source code antivirus specially designed for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides automatic database updates, flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon along with a number utilities and is a command line scanner.)

ClamAV provides a built in support for archive formats (which also includes Zip, RAR, Tar, Bzip2, C abinet2 and others), all mail file formats, ELE  executable and portable Executable file (compressed with UPX, FSG, SUE, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW and others)

ClamWin Free Antivirus uses GNU general public license designed to distribute the copies of the free software which allows sharing and changing all versions of software.

ClamWin Free Antivirus includes

Scheduler,

Anti virus engines,

Addin to MS book,

Standalone scanner,

High detection rate,

Scanning scheduler,

Virus database updates,

Context menu integration to MS Windows Explorer,

Automatic downloads of regularly updated virus database,

ClamWin Free Antivirus provides a graphical user interface to the calm anti virus engine

The latest version of ClamWin Free Antivirus is 0.95.3Which includes

* Improved virus signature handling,
* Improved scanning speed,
* Fixed detection of encrypted zip files those are embedded into other files,
* Improved loading speed of compressed virus databases,
* Other scanning enhancements,

Disadvantage in using ClamWin Free Anti virus is that

* The real time scanner is not possible so in order to detect the virus u need to manually scan the files
* Slow scans and less effective when compared with other anti virus programs, Poor detection rate

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