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suvenduproject at gmail

Jun 7, 2012, 8:12 PM

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Understanding of Antivirus concept

Hello,

I am trying to understand about the clamav antivirus how it is functioning.
But I am confused with so many documents.
Kindly help me where to start for understanding the working principle of
antivirus.


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alvarnell at mac

Jun 7, 2012, 11:13 PM

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Re: Understanding of Antivirus concept [In reply to]

On Jun 7, 2012, at 8:12 PM, suvendu mohapatra <suvenduproject [at] gmail> wrote:

> I am trying to understand about the clamav antivirus how it is functioning.
> But I am confused with so many documents.
> Kindly help me where to start for understanding the working principle of
> antivirus.

I must say that I am confused as to what you are looking for. Your question seems to be that you are trying to understand the basic principles involved in conducting anti-virus computing, but you are asking in a forum designed for users of the clamav scanning engine. Are you trying to use clamav as an antivirus solution and on what platform and operating system? Or if you are just trying to understand anti-virus start with <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-virus>.


Sent from Janet's iPad

-Al-
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suvenduproject at gmail

Jun 7, 2012, 11:47 PM

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Re: Understanding of Antivirus concept [In reply to]

Thank you very much for reply.

Sorry for putting the question in ambiguous manner.

I am working on windows platform using operating system windows server 2008
R2.
Kindly tell me what is the difference between clamav scanning engine and
clamwin antivirus. Are they same or different.

-Suv

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Al Varnell <alvarnell [at] mac> wrote:

> On Jun 7, 2012, at 8:12 PM, suvendu mohapatra <suvenduproject [at] gmail>
> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to understand about the clamav antivirus how it is
> functioning.
> > But I am confused with so many documents.
> > Kindly help me where to start for understanding the working principle of
> > antivirus.
>
> I must say that I am confused as to what you are looking for. Your
> question seems to be that you are trying to understand the basic principles
> involved in conducting anti-virus computing, but you are asking in a forum
> designed for users of the clamav scanning engine. Are you trying to use
> clamav as an antivirus solution and on what platform and operating system?
> Or if you are just trying to understand anti-virus start with <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-virus>.
>
>
> Sent from Janet's iPad
>
> -Al-
> --
> Al Varnell
> _______________________________________________
> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net
> http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
>



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With Regards,
Suvendu
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Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net
http://www.clamav.net/support/ml


alvarnell at mac

Jun 8, 2012, 12:17 AM

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Re: Understanding of Antivirus concept [In reply to]

On 6/7/12 11:47 PM, "suvendu mohapatra" <suvenduproject [at] gmail> wrote:

> Kindly tell me what is the difference between clamav scanning engine and
> clamwin antivirus. Are they same or different.
>
ClamWin is the Windows GUI application that uses the clamav scanning engine
which is unix based software. Best information for the former can be found
at <http://www.clamwin.com/>


-Al-

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