ClamWin Free Antivirus is an antivirus software that is licensed under the GNU Public Software License. This means that you can download the software and use it freely. What does this mean to you, the user? Well for one thing it means the end of subscription fees to Symantec, Trendmicro, and/or McAfee to keep your virus library up to date. ClamWin protects against 58,116+ viruses free of charge. And the virus database is updated almost daily (at least every other day).

ClamWin Free Antivirus is based on the Clam Antivirus Engine and is a windows front end for this antivirus engine and includes a free Outlook plugin. It includes just about every option that you would get with a pay antivirus scanner. Including internet updates, reports, the ability to scan inside zip files and so on.

The idea of using an open source antivirus might scare some people because they think that it might be easier for virus makers to code around the antivirus engine. What most people do not realize is that open source software is throughly checked and tested to ensure against such things. Every code check in is scrutenized by the other programmers on the project to ensure stability and cleanliness. And I don’t about the rest of you, but I’m tired of paying thirty to forty dollars a year to protect my PC from the various threats out there.

So start saving yourself some money while continuing to protect your PC. Download ClamWin Free Antivirus today and take the leap into open source software.

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