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Cisco now owns them.

I just realized how Cisco is quietly acquiring a lot of similar "open" projects lately... OpenDNS, ClamAV, Snort (these last two through their acquisition of Sourcefire), etc...
So are there any disadvantages of using Cisco's open projects? Is OpenDNS effective on virus scanning?
 
So are there any disadvantages of using Cisco's open projects? Is OpenDNS effective on virus scanning?
Nothing wrong in either products.

OpenDNS merely handles name resolution, it has no relation to malware scanning.

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OpenDNS enables you to block household access to black-listed web sites, adult content, etc.

That's not the same thing as "virus scanning" however, which was the original question.
 
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I thought ClamAV is not a real time scanner. I ran it years ago on a couple of servers and it was only active when you ran it, kind of after the fact when it comes to viruses.
 
I thought ClamAV is not a real time scanner. I ran it years ago on a couple of servers and it was only active when you ran it, kind of after the fact when it comes to viruses.

That's correct. That's why those NAS typically run a scan on a scheduled period.
 
...free background scans, on demand or scheduled...

Background does not imply realtime or on-access. Both on-demand and scheduled will run in background when they are launched.

On-access scanning would probably be mentioned as such if it was supported (and it would require them to somehow integrate clamav into Samba).
 
You know if I was going to use ClamAV since it is not a real time scanner I would use another computer to run ClamAV from and map a volume so you can scan to the other computer. This way if a virus happens, your ClamAV on that computer is not compromised. You are using a different computer with a good ClamAV not the one on the compromised machine.
 
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