Hi again,
ClamWin team would like to thank all of you who voted in our poll and helped us form a broader opinion about the partnership with Ask.com.
Based on your feedback and our analysis of the Ask Toolbar we made a decision to go ahead and include the Ask Toolbar with ClamWin setup file. Incremental version updates will not be affected.
Please read an updated announcement here: http://www.clamwin.com/ask
Thank you all again and lets hope this move turns ClamWin into a better product in the near future.
ClamWin Team
ClamWin team would like to thank all of you who voted in our poll and helped us form a broader opinion about the partnership with Ask.com.
Based on your feedback and our analysis of the Ask Toolbar we made a decision to go ahead and include the Ask Toolbar with ClamWin setup file. Incremental version updates will not be affected.
Please read an updated announcement here: http://www.clamwin.com/ask
Thank you all again and lets hope this move turns ClamWin into a better product in the near future.
ClamWin Team
Thank you ClamWin, for deciding you'd rather not be a security vendor we can trust.
Oh and yes folks, the toolbar is PRE-TICKED.
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A product claiming to be open source security closed that claim with the addition of a commercially supported toolbar
Here's my problem, they force the toolbar upon installation by pre-checking the option, requiring the user to Opt-out. It should be the other way around and leave the option un-checked and require the user to Opt-in.
ClamWin, like so many others toolbar additives, expect the user to do a quick install: click "Next" to continue, and bang we're done. Very few now-a-days read the ToS, Privacy Policies, and quickly agree to any EULA's provided and with this, they now have FAT (For yet Another Toolbar).
Two thumbs down.
I did an investigation. It can be read here:
http://www.helpmyos.com/bad-companies-investigations-f77/clamwin-is-now-distributing-ask-toolbar-t1327.htm#3175
I really do not like this. I did not see this coming.
Well, ClamWin was never a really good option. For one, their on-access scanner was somewhat limited (using user-mode hooking instead of kernel-mode if I remember right). The other part is that the signatures of ClamWin are skewed in the direction of detecting mass-mailing malware (because of its origin - as a server-side solution), which means that the coverage of "desktop" malware is quite low.
For free AV solutions I always recommend AVG, Avast or the new MS Security Essentials (Avira - even though quite good - has a little too much nag screens for my taste).
You should also check out http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
This site's sole purpose is to have a cheap platform for spyware bundlers to get their goodies on your system.
Latest greatest example is Anvir Task Manager.
http://www.threatexpert.com/report.aspx?md5=c7573658eb7ba865e43a1b389d752139
Hold wait my MS Esseintals said I
had a backdoor. I looked to see where it came from:
C:\Users\Joel\AppData\Local\Temp\clamav-859d3b6517f4e508bc544cdb76ec67b0.00001664.clamtmp
This is its stats:
Backdoor:Win32/Ursap!rts 6/5/2011 9:53 AM Quarantined
DAMN IT CLAIMWIN!
You almost screwed my HP Pavilion P 6000 a.k.a. PIMPED Series
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