Fed up with AV problems - need specific

[Xoni]

Hey Guys

I'm totally fed up with the problems I've had that were caused by over-zealous anti-virus programs.

Over the years I've tried many different ones but they all have their shortcomings - some worse than others - and some I've been prepared to put up with.

The first couple of years on the www I didn't use one at all.

To date I've had 0 infections, many false positives and two pretty low-level spyware instances.

Now I've finally had enough, though. I'd like to have an anti-virus program that doesn't run in the background and/or check everything I do etc - one that either simply integrates into my shell so that when I want, for example, some downloaded files scanning I can do that using my right-click menu or one that I can start up to scan files then close down afterwards would be okay.

Anyone know any such progs that do specifically what I want, as described above?

[Splash]

Sounds like you want Clamwin. Does exactly what you're asking for.

Personally I prefer to have on-access scanning, but for manual scanning Clam is pretty much the daddy (and free to boot)

[Xoni]

I'll give that a try - looks as you say, like the very thing...

Thanks.

[k4p84]

If its downloaded files your worried about some download managers not only quarantine all downloads but they also have virus scanners too