I've posted a pre-release of ClamWin Portable 0.88.5 for testing. This updates ClamWin to the latest version and adds Vista compatibility for both the launcher and the setup routine.
ClamWin Portable 0.88.5 Pre-Release 1
Please give it a try and report back with the results.
Side Note: I compared a compressed version of ClamWin to an uncompressed one for speed in scanning and they performed about the same (the compressed one was maybe a few % faster). So, we're sticking with compressed binaries/JARs, saving us 65% in install size.
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Seems fine on XP SP2. Already reporting that it's outdated though - apparently 0.88.6 is out soon! You'd think they'd wait for us to catch up wouldn't you!
Still wish that ClamWin would provide an on access scan, but the very fact that it is free outweighs that.
Thanks John, currently you are single-handedly looking after the whole portable market!
Rich
They posted that notice about it 9 days ago. So, I'm going ahead with 0.88.5. An update will be easy.
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I'm running Windows XP SP2 and it works great.
Kurt
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Installed into a clean directory with no issues.
Started the app, warned about outdate dat files
Successfully download new dat files.
Successfully completed a full scan of my U3 drive.
Scan started: Thu Nov 16 11:21:50 2006
-- summary --
Known viruses: 77103
Engine version: 0.88.5
Scanned directories: 667
Scanned files: 3944
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 663.92 MB
Time: 525.192 sec (8 m 45 s)
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Completed
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Successfully saved the logfile.
Successfully viewed the logfile.
Started another scan and verified that the "STOP" button does end the scan.
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Scan started: Thu Nov 16 11:35:19 2006
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Cancelled
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Successfully saved the logfile.
Successfully viewed the logfile.
Successfully completed a new scan of 1 file
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Scan started: Thu Nov 16 11:37:24 2006
-- summary --
Known viruses: 77103
Engine version: 0.88.5
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 3.50 MB
Time: 4.735 sec (0 m 4 s)
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Completed
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Successfully saved the logfile.
Successfully viewed the logfile.
Successfuly completed a scan of Computer Memory for Viruses
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Scan started: Thu Nov 16 11:38:52 2006
*** Scanning Programs in Computer Memory ***
*** Computer Memory Scan Completed ***
-- summary --
Known viruses: 77103
Engine version: 0.88.5
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 0
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 226.21 MB
Time: 91.191 sec (1 m 31 s)
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Completed
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Successfully saved the logfile.
Successfully viewed the logfile.
Looks good to me...
Please,
How do you tell CWP to scan ONE file
Tim
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Successfully completed a new scan of 1 file
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Scan started: Thu Nov 16 11:37:24 2006
-- summary --
Known viruses: 77103
Engine version: 0.88.5
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 0
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Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
You just browse to it within the ClamWin interface. Expand each drive/directory until you find the file you want to scan.
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Boy you are FAST,
I just posted that I had found it.
Should I delete my post or leave it for others?
Tim
Geek w/o portfolio
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
Never Mind,
I found it. It is not intuitve that you can do this in ClamWin,
Glad you pointed it out, it will be very useful.
Thanks
Tim
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Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
Ran it in Vista. ClamWin had all kinds of errors while performing a scan, but I assume that is a ClamWin problem and has nothing to do with Portable ClamWin.
Can you give a couple samples (short ones)? I haven't tested it in Vista yet... I just updated the launcher and installer so it works in Vista without the account privs window.
UPDATE: I tried it out on Windows Vista RC2 and it worked without a hitch.
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Is it possible in the Pre-R to tell CWP to EXCLUDE a Directory?
ClamWin is very through, there fore very slow.
I have a SubDirectory on my drive that only contains a lot of picture and movie files.
I know how to exclude a file type, is it possilbe to exclude a directory/folder.
So far the Pre-R is great
Tim
Geek w/o portfolio
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
I installed it over the existing ClamWin. I did not find any errors or funnies during normal use on Windows XP Pro.
Regards
Paul
Ps. Thanks for all the hard work John!