I volunteer at a small nonprofit. We were donated a server with Windows Small Business Server 2000 already installed and 5 licenses for our workstations. Since I was a programmer in another life I have somehow wound up assigned to take care of all of our computers but obviously I am not a hardware or network person and know nothing about Server 2000. I didn't realize I needed to have an antivirus installed on the server. I loaded Free AVG on all the workstations but lately I started receiving these emails from Qwest saying our server is infected and they are going to cut of our Internet access if I don't take care of it.

Our server has Active Directory which I use to create an account for each new volunteer and it sets up an email folder and user folder for them on the server. No one uses outlook for their email since everyone has a hotmail, yahoo, or gmail account but I guess since the server has mail exchange on it that is how the viruses are getting in? Clamwin says it will work on Server 2008 and 2003, but will it work on 2000? I know we should buy an anti-virus package but our nonprofit has absolutely no money and can barely pay rent and keep phones and internet access so that is out of the question at this point.

ClamWin will probably work on your Windows 2000 server. I know that it is still used on Windows 98 computers, with a glitch now and then. It is not designed for servers, however, and if you look on the forum, you will see that users in a networked environment have had problems with it--primarily in false positive detections of "good" system files, which has zapped the system and caused lots of work to restore things. There was a bad such incident about a week ago.

A suggestion: look at Microsoft Security Essentials. I read a few days ago that Microsoft is allowing it to be used now by organizations with up to 10 computers. It is a good antivirus and has a very low false positive rate, and it is free. I do not know if it will run on anything prior to Windows XP, however.

If you use ClamWin, I suggest you configure it to Report Only for infected files--do not Quarantine/Remove them. You can set it to send an email notification to someone when there is a detection. You might also take a look at the Clam Sentinel (a separate project) add-on, which enables you to use ClamWin as a real-time scanner and also has some heuristics to detect new malware. The Sentinel site is at https://sourceforge.net/projects/clamsentinel/ on the web.

Regards,

Thanks for the info. I read the forums but could not find the information to answer my question.

I use ClamWin on a Windows 2000 Server. No problems for approx one year now .