Rating and comments for ClamWin

False positives aside, which have nothing to do really with the product, so much as the AV Engine behind it, this is a fun and delightful little piece of software...

More of an: Ut Oh, you have an infection, do something, sort of application, than a removal application, it still ads a fun component to your Windows Explorer, and generally satisfies the inner geek.

This is not a real-time application, rather it is an on demand scanner, meaning it is safe to use in conjunction with your regular AV...

A fairly simple, effective and well supported virus detection program. It is far more reliable and stable than Norton, mainly because it is a basic scanner rather than realtime protection.

It does have some quite useful features, such as email notifications. It is good enough to make me throw away Norton and McAfee forever - after all, once I know a virus exists on a computer, I prefer to resolve it myself anyway.

Long way to go till it competes with comercial antivirus or even "free" antivirus like antivir or avast

Tis is great, I hate realtime scanners with their resource hogging. It may have a long way to go until it competes with commercial antivirus software but to be honest I hope it never gets there.

The last time that I had Windows installed on my computer, I was using ClamWin as the antivirus. Needless to say, I got a virus that not only made my files unrecoverable, but also damaged my hard drive...