I heard (from the official irc channel) that it's hard coded to never scan mp3 files. That was the main purpose I wanted it for, and I think it's wrong to hard code anything like that. I suppose it's a good lite partner to something like MSE, if it does now scan mp3s.

Thats somewhat silly as mp3's can be attack vectors, though I don't know if this is a problem in the wild.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/GMs-OnStar-Ford-Sync-MP3-B...

I tend to run clam-av on file servers and mail gateways for the obvious reasons. I like the software, it works quite well. I'm going to have to look into the mp3 block though, this just seems like a bad idea.

Well I heard that Steve Jobs puts subliminal messages in MP3s on iTunes to make you buy Big Macs because of a conspiracy by an international group of ......

You can set an ignore list (at least in the clamwin gui) by default a lot of data files (images, mp3s, avi etc) are set to ignore since they shouldn't be executed anyway unless your player is buggy

I've used clam-av as a mail scanner (combined with postfix on freebsd 5.?-8.2) and on my mac desktop and it's very effective. I can't see any reason to not use it.

I've always heard ClamAV on Windows is dog slow. Anyone have any numbers?

It's not fast - but you can tune what/when it scans

Just did a test, C drive with 40Gb of Windows + program installs, a default settings initial full scan on a reasonably good machine.

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------

Known viruses: 925205 Engine version: 0.97 Scanned directories: 17693 Scanned files: 99960 Infected files: 0

Data scanned: 15352.83 MB Data read: 15506.05 MB (ratio 0.99:1) Time: 2863.965 sec (47 m 43 s)

Thanks. How about real time scan? Is it noticeably slower than the proprietary competition?

Recommend taking a look at Immunet, it's for Windows, and has ClamAV built in.