I wonder how many people would pay $5 or $10 for a fund to have ClamWin improved. I'm talking about a cache to keep the signatures permanently available for fast scans and a real-time option with some basic heuristics to supplement the insufficient Clam AV signatures.

Regards,

Well, there have been no replies, so I take it that no one is interested in improving ClamWin!

Regards,

Would love to help in some other way (money for the poor)

You can count me in, Bob. I would like to see ClamWin live on.

BTW, there is a new version of ClamWin out that fixes the update problem. I've been having 403 forbidden errors trying to post here from Windows or Linux. I am on my cell now, we'll see if this goes through.

Hello Lipper: Well, I guess that makes 2 or 3 of us!

The update worked fine for me. Now I don't have to go to the web site mentioned in the update error message to manually download and install the updates. I didn't know if the problem was due to Clam AV or to ClamWin--still don't. Evidently there was a manual default by Clam AV in case users aren't able to download the updates but it may not have worked on Win 98.

Regards,

Hello Bob. Hopefully, more will come and offer support.

I think the broken updates was a ClamWin thing. All the while, ClamAV never lost updates in Linux. Also, ClamAV has not been updated.

It looks like I'm back posting from Windows again. The latest Firefox changed to encrypted DNS. There was a setting in Avast related to encrypted DNS and it was disabled. I also flushed the local DNS cache, and something seems to have worked.

Cheers!

I agree it probably was a ClamWin thing, but I didn't want to say it.

It seems to me that AVs are getting too complicated now, but I guess they have to go along/survive as the OS complexity increases. I am seriously thinking about doing a dual boot and getting used to Linux (Mint probably) and eventually lose Windows. I have been unable to update Windows for 2 months now, and I am reluctant to fix it myself--that should automatically be done by the update itself if it can't complete.

Regards,

GuitarBob:

I had fiddled in the past with various versions of PupplyLinux that you can run form the CD, used it on my Pentium3 thought it did chug a bit, but they should do well on something newer with more memory than 768 of emory that I use on my dual boot win98/2000.

Thanks for info, cubbettee. I'll check it out. I guess you can run Clam AV on it. Clam isn't really quite good enough for Windows, but it should be okay on Linux since you don't have to worry about all those Windows viruses.

Regards,

From the Puppy's, I have used running form cd:
Lucid 5.25, wary 5.5, retro precise 5.7.1
As for installing I know Mint and Ubuntu are popular
Yes Clam AV should run on an install.