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the powerful alternative anti-virus real-time solution tested a lot (during the last 8 months) with customized configuration and set of additional customized software like ClamWin, Anvir, Ghostwall, etc. the system is Windows XP Pro SP3. now there are saveral hundreds machines running this custom security complex. this complex includes several special developed by USETOOLS project protection layers (including the shield against usb flash viruses) and script-based cleaners for 0-administration. all of them are also based on Clam antivirus modules for win32. the main idea is not evil but effective antiviral solution for WinNT platform made of open source and free components. so great thanks to Clam Sentinel team for their work, this module is extremly useful, flexible and tiny.
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I have been using this application for a few months now. It has on occasion been of good value in rooting out some suspicious files (though the really bad ones have simultaneously been spotted by Microsoft Security Essentials). However, on my wife's machine, it has quarantined perfectly harmless files during download of bona fide games, which have corrupted the installations. On my machine, it has, tonight, decided that the Windows system files involved in starting up my Network (internet access) are suspicious. Therefore - I have had to uninstall it from my machine, and I think I may as well so the same for my wife's machine, as she doesn't always remember to turn it off before downloading her games (switching it off at any point rather defeats the whole object really). It is a shame that Clam Sentinel is ultimately let down by its failure to realise false positives when it sees them. Quarantining valid Windows files is an operating system sacrilege, unfortunately.
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Provides partial realtime protection, which will give you added piece of mind on Windows 9x-based machines, or a second opinion/safety net on machines where you don't completely trust the existing AV. It's generally simple and easy to get going, works well and doesn't slow your machine down too much, although there is some unnecessary overhead reloading the virus database each time a file is scanned, due to scanning files using clamscan rather than clamd (which isn't included with ClamWin). A performance advantage might be gained by including clamd with ClamSentinel, but still using ClamWin's virus databases, which are of course automatically updated by ClamWin. If you want to use ClamWin as your main/only antivirus, this project is a good step towards real time protection, but bare in mind that it is not yet as comprehensive or sophisticated as a "true" on-access guard.