Documentation

You can view the documentation below, or browse our GitHub Repository, where you can contribute to user manual and FAQ.

General | Installing ClamAV | How to Report A Bug | Miscellaneous FAQ | ClamAV Virus Database FAQ | End of Life Policy (EOL) | Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUA) | Mailing Lists FAQ | Troubleshooting FAQ | Safebrowsing | Upgrading ClamAV | ClamAV on Microsoft Windows FAQ | Which Version of ClamAV should I use? | Uninstalling ClamAV | ClamAV Overview | Interpreting Scan Alerts FAQ | Freshclam FAQ | How do I ignore a ClamAV signature?

Manual | Clam AntiVirus User Manual

Manual | UserManual | Installing ClamAV on Unix / Linux / macOS from Source | Installing ClamAV on Windows | Introduction | LibClamAV | On-Access Scanning | Creating signatures for ClamAV | Usage | ClamAV Development

Manual | UserManual | Installation-Unix | Installation on Debian and Ubuntu Linux Distributions | Installation on macOS (Mac OS X) | Installation on Redhat and CentOS Linux Distributions

Manual | UserManual | Signatures | Trusted and Revoked Certificates | Body-based Signature Content Format | Bytecode Signatures | Signatures based on container metadata | Database Info | Dynamic Configuration (DCONF) | Passwords for archive files \[experimental\] | Extended signature format | File Type Magic | ClamAV File Types | Functionality Levels (FLEVELs) | File hash signatures | Logical signatures | PhishSigs | Using YARA rules in ClamAV | Allow list databases

Manual | UserManual | Usage | Configuration | Scanning | Signature Testing and Management

Additional | Microsoft Authenticode Signature Verification | Private Local Mirrors

ClamAV Overview

clamscan

A command line program to scan files and directories that does not require the clamd daemon.

clamd

A multi threaded daemon.

When clamd is running, use these tools to interact with it:

  • clamdtop

    A command line GUI to monitor clamd.

  • clamdscan

    A command line program to scan files and directories through clamd.

freshclam

The signature database (cvd) update tool.

libclamav

The ClamAV library - so you can build the ClamAV engine into your programs.

sigtool

A signature database (cvd) manipulation tool - for malware analysts and signaure writers.

clambc

Another signature manipulation tool specifically for bytecode signatures.

clamconf

A tool to check or generate ClamAV configuration files and collect additional information that may be needed to help remotely debug issues.

clamav-config

An additional tool for checking how ClamAV was compiled.

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