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freefighter
| Joined: 20 Oct 2007 |
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| Location: Bavaria |
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 Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:29 am |
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Hello Clamwin team,
on the homepage of Sourcefire they are selling a commercial "Plus" version of the ClamAV for Windows. It is nothing different than the Immunet 2.0 software with the ClamAV database. Even they offer a basic version for free (for private and commercial use) I don't know if this is a good development. Although Immunet would offer the sourcecode, if required regarding GPL license. Of course development costs time and money. And for the realtime capabilities of ClamAV there wasn't enough of time, manpower and money.
What do you think of this matter?
Regards
Freefighter
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GuitarBob
| Joined: 09 Jul 2006 |
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| Location: USA |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:13 pm |
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I think it will give users another option for free antivirus protection, so that is a good thing, but another good AV program might take some users away from ClamWin.
I am concerned that at some point the commercial companies might drop the free AV software because, considering the effort that goes into it, it is becoming expensive to give away, but a free AV can still be useful to the manufacturer if they integrate it into a good development program. Evidently, this is what Imunet intends to do. They will need a good user base to do so, and it think it will be more than the current 150,000 users they now have. ClamWin has maybe 600,000, so I think they inted to raid ClamWin's base.
Microsoft's Security Essentials is a pretty good free AV, and it may kill off the competition--like Microsoft has done with some other software in the past.
The paid version of Imunet Free/Clam AV for Windows does seem to offer a bit more functionality/protection (USB for one) than the free version.
Regards,
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Mike2k
| Joined: 24 Aug 2010 |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:38 pm |
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Well I don't know...I mean, it has nothing to do with ClamAV anymore, excepting the name.
It doesn't use the ClamAV engine, it is not free at all and also the source code is closed.
I thought the sense behind ClamAV is to provide a free AV solution and I don't understand why ClamAV offers an official free AV solution for Linux, while they cooperate with Immunet to provide a commercial solution for Windows.
That's like Mozilla would make a free Linux version of Firefox, but a commercial one for Windows...
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