Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.(Read more...)
Latest Stable Release
Latest ClamAV® stable release is: 0.95.3
Total number of signatures: 647411
ClamAV Virus Databases: main.cvd ver. 51 released on 14 May 2009 10:28 :0400 daily.cvd ver. 10000 released on 07 Nov 2009 22:28 :0500
Latest Development Release (Release Candidates)
There are no Release Candidates currently planned. See our roadmap.
All ClamAV releases older than 0.95 are affected by a bug in freshclam which prevents incremental updates from working with signatures longer than 980 bytes. (Read more...)
Yesterday Sourceforge announced the finalists for Community Choice Awards 2009.
We are glad to let you know that ClamAV was among the 10 projects that collected more nominations in the Best tool for sysadmin category!
ClamAV’s own Tomasz Kojm will be giving two talks at the FISL 10 Conference, June 24th through 27th in Porto Alegre Brazil. Abstracts and times for Tomasz’ presentations are below. If you’re attending please stop by and say hi.
June 24 – 2:00pm “ClamAV Basics, Common Usage, Tips & Tricks”
The presentation will provide a broad introduction to Clam AntiVirus, its main features and advantages. Tomasz will focus his remarks on the following aspects of ClamAV: (Read more...)
SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards just opened and we hope to receive your help to nominate ClamAV to one or more categories. Once all final nominees have been decided, everyone will be able to vote for the projects of their choice in each category. We hope to be nominated in the category “Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins”.