ClamAV focuses on viruses actually in the Wild. The test you mentioned is a conglomeration of 90,000 virii - and the sad fact is there are just less than a few hundred in the wild at any given time. Some of these 90,000, I'm sure are virii from the early MS-DOS days that you won't see anywhere but on grandpa's 5.25 inch warez collection disks. Here are some statistics on 'in the wild virii'.
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/166400446
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The PC WELT site results demonstrated that for one Sober variant, Clam Anti-Virus had the first patch in place with well-known Symantec releasing a patch a full nine hours later. Most of the other vendors fared better, but were hours behind Clam. Nine hours of an unchecked virus in the wild could mean 2 or 3 million of our customers' e-mail messages were not protected from this virus, which is totally unacceptable. This was a particularly virulent virus--one measure is that Electric Mail stopped more than a million instances of it and it exhausted a lot of bandwidth.
That was an interesting results for a single virus, but we still looked for more proof of Clam's prowess.
For the last 50 new virus variants received through June 19, which is approximately 2 weeks of data, Electric Mail compared Clam Anti-Virus with two of the top five antivirus vendors in the world. We timed how long it took each vendor (A and B in this example) to release a pattern update from the time the virus was first seen.
A scoring system was devised based on who was first, second, and third to release a virus signature. Anti-Virus outranked the other two antivirus vendors by a wide margin.
One key measure is that Clam Anti-Viruscame in first 77% of the time. Kudos to Clam Anti-Virus!
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: episodic
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: episodic
Clam AV for Windows is lighter than Antivir at only 17 mB total
Only realtime protection CLAM has is an Outlook email scanner (does not work with OE).
Only newbs need realtime protection. Scan your files as you download them and once a week do a system scan. Patch and don't warez and you've got NO problems.
I have ran CLAM for the past 3 months since switching to xp 64bit, they still need to work on their detection rates:
http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=69&mnu=69
The 91202 virus samples
20. AntiVir version 6.30.00.17 - 84.50%
21. Avast version 4.6.623 - 79.65%
28. AVG version 7.0.308 - 54.07%
35. ClamWin version 0.83 - 48.44%