Fwd: Re: [clamav-users] Which anti-virus do you prefer on Linux desktop?

[Franklin Wang]

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Of course, it's wonderful to know more friends with the same hobby. But
I wonder to know the answer about it for long. The virus db of clamav
may be the same on the several types of platforms, but the commercial
softwares maybe not. I copied a result of 'Day0 Summary' from
shadowserver.org a few days ago, as following:

vendor     detected     total     percent
Avira (Windows)     164,659     185,034     88.9885
Comodo (Windows)     115,889     136,109     85.1443
Eset (Windows)     153,248     182,528     83.9586
K7 (Windows)     153,676     185,244     82.9587
Avast (Windows)     147,266     185,226     79.5061
Avast (Linux)     135,715     170,938     79.3943
Symantec (Windows)     141,871     182,075     77.9190
Sunbelt (Windows)     144,019     185,080     77.8145
Eset (Linux)     142,373     183,664     77.5182
BitDefender (Linux)     136,308     179,849     75.7902
BitDefender (Windows)     136,844     184,910     74.0057
AVG (Windows)     125,048     170,394     73.3876
Authentium (Windows)     133,643     185,109     72.1969
Kaspersky (Windows)     104,849     145,413     72.1043
Avira (Linux)     124,587     177,928     70.0210
Authentium (Linux)     121,364     179,559     67.5900
FProt (Windows)     123,574     183,055     67.5065
Ikarus (Windows)     109,977     164,330     66.9245
Ikarus (Linux)     110,824     179,525     61.7318
FProt (Linux)     110,122     180,409     61.0402
Fortinet (Windows)     102,059     172,655     59.1115
Clam (Linux)     104,644     179,285     58.3674
Clam (Windows)     77,253     137,575     56.1534
McAfee (Windows)     100,531     180,003     55.8496
Norman (Windows)     91,194     163,996     55.6075
Lionic (Windows)     93,746     185,134     50.6368
QuickHeal (Windows)     84,592     168,558     50.1857
McAfee (Linux)     73,338     146,264     50.1408
FSecure (Windows)     89,352     181,299     49.2843
AVG (Linux)     89,843     183,814     48.8771
QuickHeal (Linux)     84,423     175,364     48.1416
Sophos (Linux)     66,169     138,320     47.8376
Microsoft (Windows)     76,974     169,284     45.4703
GData (Windows)     80,961     184,597     43.8582
TrendMicro (Windows)     77,177     179,421     43.0145
Sophos (Windows)     69,207     171,143     40.4381
TrendMicro (Linux)     49,049     128,919     38.0464
AhnLab (Windows)     59,945     176,238     34.0137
Panda (Linux)     35,155     117,398     29.9451
Norman (Linux)     26,108     128,670     20.2907
FSecure (Linux)     37,175     184,466     20.1528


On 01/01/2015 05:21 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote:
> On 12/31/14 11:22 PM, Franklin Wang wrote:
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>> I've tried nod32, Dr. Web, AVG, clamav(the only open source one?),
>> comodo, F-prot on the desktop(x86_64). Why can't I find reviews for
>> them? There're many reviews for Windows platform, but few for Linux
>> desktop, not server. Any suggestions? I'm using openSUSE now, with
>> rkhunter, AIDE, gpg installed.
>>
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> The signatures are what do the work. What OS the tool is compiled for
is not so important. ClamAV probably is not significantly different on
OS X, Windows, Linux, or Solaris because the signatures are the same
everywhere. The binaries, no matter the OS, just run. Rather well, in fact.
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> dp
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