> My subjective experience with ClamAV and it's ClamXav version
> for Mac OS X is that it's fine for a free
> manual/scheduled/user-level malware scanner. For example,
> Apple uses it scanning email in Mac OS X Server Tiger.

Agree: you get what you pay for. :) You need to bear in mind that ClamXav
uses the Clam engine, but isn't the same product and isn't a cooperative
venture.

> However, it does not do on-demand/event/trigger/kernel-level
> scanning for inspection of files as they are created/modified
> etc. on a file system.

Did you mean to say on-access there? True, though there is some sort of
monitoring of specified folders, which as I recall slows down processing
considering without being true realtime monitoring. It's a long time since I
looked at it, though.

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David Harley
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