Clam Antivirus project founder Tomasz Kojm bluntly describes ClamAV response time, competitiveness, longevity and viability on servers as well as desktop systems with Email Battles correspondent Aaron Gillette. Kojm also discusses his research on advanced heuristics that will intercept unknown viruses for which no virus-signatures yet exist.
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