Best antivirus for cygwin? - was Norton antivirus and the Trojans

[Arturus Magi]

bob sandefur wrote:

> Hi-
> 
> Apparently Norton antivirus is getting a false positive with rsync and wget.
> I would really like to dump Norton AntiVirus but I have never found any AV
> program to be very satisfactory.  I would like the following:
> 1. 64-bit compatible (if the drivers ever show up I will migrate to xp64)
> 2. Relatively cheap for up to 10 machines (every year I buy enough three or
> five packs of Norton for about 10 or 20 bucks with rebates, uninstall the
> old version and run the new version for a year.  This is much cheaper than
> upgrading through the Norton web site.).
> 3. Auto updating.
> 4. Cygwin friendly
> 

I use AVG myself, but the ultimate option for Cygwin-friendliness is the 
port of clamscan already in the 'net Release.

You'll have to set up a cron tab to run freshclam to autoupdate 
clamscan, though (someone else will have to advise you on that).

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