Clam Sentinel

Great software product! Straight very cool, thank you very much!

Unobtrusive, compact, stable, most importantly - works.

Excellent piece of software that allows to securely use the most reliable open source antivirus: ClamWin. Tested (and working perfectly) on Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 (in the ix86 and amd64 architectures also). The only problem that I see is an inconvenient with some temporay working files of some programs (Java, adwcleaner, even ClamWin) that are classified by Clam Sentinel like virus or malware, but I will not use another security suite anyway, because I can control perfectly from my responsability like network and computers administrator. Thanks to Andrea Russo and Robert Scroggins for giving us the possibility to use -I insist- the only reliable opensource antivirus: ClamWin.

works well with no problems on my system. i use this on an xp with old, slow hardware. it's pretty much the only thing that will run on my system. i've noticed that the wikipedia article on clam sentinel keeps getting deleted for some reason (3x in 2 years by the same person). perhaps someone would like to recreate it?

Not for the faint of heart, using ClamAV as a backend means you'll get a lot of false positives but you'll learn a lot about which files your system needs to function correctly :) You'll have to turn it off now and then as it will strip files from a steam download requiring you to re-validate the cache of a game (not normally a lot to re-download, a couple of hundred K) or re-initiate a download through chrome due to file name obfuscation but in all honesty, these are minor things compared to knowing you are safe. I tried immunet for a while but it was causing me a lot of grief with moveslink/movescount, detecting it as a false positive no matter what I did. To add, it was quite bloated and the Ads annoyed me. Coming from a *nix background I always wanted something ClamAV based on windows and ClamWin just didn't quite cut it. It's a shame Clam Sentinel isn't part of ClamWin, even if it felt tacked on or a bit hacky it would give ClamWin that usefulness that I need it to have. As it is, it feels tacked on and hacky but in a good way :) ... it's lean and efficient and has only the mandatory functionality. Last thing I'll mention is, as a gamer I like my AV option to be lean, unobtrusive and easily switched off. I'm not stupid with my internet habits, I block Ads, and I'll rarely introduce something I don't completely trust onto my PC. I just don't need something as comprehensive as Avast!. Although I do recommend Avast! for anyone who is super paranoid or can't keep their system clean. ClamWin in combination with Clam Sentinel suits my needs exactly. And with ClamAV being one of the few AV products to detect and completely remove some really obscure viruses for me in the past, I have complete trust in it's abilities, even if it is a little too quick to quarantine sometimes. All the complaints about this product neglect to mention that the problem is to do with the ClamAV definitions. ClamAV determines what is or isn't a virus, not Clam Sentinel. Clam Sentinel does it's job just fine and you can always disable the suspicious file detection. Nice work ... and thank you.