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By ajaxer on Feb. 20, 2008

Clamwin is definitely a good way to go - free, opensource and easy to setup and use. Pros:

* High detection rates for viruses and spyware

* Scanning Scheduler

* Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database

* Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer

* Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically

By osafw on May. 13, 2008

Ajaxer has hit it bang on the target. Clamwin even beats the best in its heuristics for identifying a virus and also has one of the fastest turn around time/reaction time for creating a vaccine for any new virus than most of the closed and paid options.

The gripe with Clamwin is that it still does not have realtime file access scanner to scan files when you do any operation on it. Which means you will have to manually scan each and every file before opening it. But till it has one you could try Winpooch.

I had detailed on Clamwin and Winpooch earlier:

http://open-source.onestop.net/2006/05/clamwin.html

http://open-source.onestop.net/2006/04/winpooch.html

By tsega on May. 19, 2008

I am sorry to say this but I don't think you will find a very good answer for your question. Simply put there is no good all in one anti-virus protection that is open source. So the next best thing should be just a free one and you have one like that in Avast!Home Edition. I would recommend Avast! over ClamWin , it has got everything you need to protect your PC, it updates regularly, it has a very high detection rate (even though not perfect), it has real-time detection, email scanning (i.e outlook integration) etc.

I suggest you give it a try, all you need is to subscribe for free. Go here,

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

By an anonymous user on Sep. 19, 2008

Try AVG, with Comodo Firewall. I found as effective as Norton and FSecure.thanks