Wrong Clam?

Discussion in 'Software' started by greenknight32, Jan 19, 2007.

  1. greenknight32

    greenknight32 Sergeant

    I tried to download ClamAV SOSDG from MajorGeeks, Free Download Manager said I was downloading ClamWin. What gives? I have just been trying out ClamWin (It's really slow), and I wanted to compare this other version - instead I saw the exact same file I had already downloaded from SourceForge appearing again. I stopped that download, went to the SOSDG home page and found another mirror where I got the correct file.
     
  2. Mada_Milty

    Mada_Milty MajorGeek

    Mislabelled, perhaps?

    The download page itself does say the following:

    Not surprising to me as MG is primarily a Windows download site.
     
  3. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    Use the Report a Bad Link to alert MA or CP to this being a wrong'un and they will look into it and adjust as its the quickest way to notify them of link issues on the main downloads site.
     
  4. greenknight32

    greenknight32 Sergeant

    @ Mada_Milty - they're 2 different ports of ClamAV to Windows. ClamWin has a cute GUI, and is painfully slow. The SOSDG version is a command-line scanner, and incorporates a daemon that's supposed to speed up scanning. I want to see if it's really any faster.

    @Halo - Thanks for the link. I figured there was some procedure for reporting problems like that, just didn't know what it was
     
  5. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

  6. Mada_Milty

    Mada_Milty MajorGeek

    Ahhh, nice! I never knew! I wasn't too impressed with ClamWin myself.
     
  7. greenknight32

    greenknight32 Sergeant

    Sadly, I can't get it to work. The syntax is simple enough that I expected no trouble, but I keep getting a message that the syntax is not correct when I enter a command to run it. One thing after another...
     
  8. greenknight32

    greenknight32 Sergeant

    I got it to run, finally. Nothing wrong with their syntax, it's my brain that's broken.:eek: It does seem to scan a little faster than ClamWin. For me, it's not enough faster to make up for the features it lacks, and the inconvenience.
     

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