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This is the last release candidate for 0.90 .
Please report any problems through our bugzilla . If you are running ClamAV 0.90RC1.1 or 0.90rc2, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest RC.
Remember to try the experimental code by using ”./configure—enable-experimental” at compile time.

Our new Wiki site is now in production. Visit http://wiki.clamav.net and register yourself! You are welcome to document all the steps you did to integrate ClamAV with your favourite content scanner. Also feel free to post your success stories about ClamAV on http://wiki.clamav.net/Main/SuccessStories . Let’s share your know-how on ClamAV with the rest of our user community!
We really hope that this new Wiki will serve for this purpose better than the previous one. We learned the lesson the hard way: the new wiki features a more user friendly interface, a WYSIWYG editor and some very important antispam protections.

Heise Security reports that ClamAV was among the first virus scanners to detect a trojan distributed by a forged version of Wikipedia. You can read the full article at http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/80729

The second release candidate of the long awaited
ClamAV 0.90 is ready for general testing! If you are running ClamAV 0.90RC1.1, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest RC. Remember to try the experimental code by using ”./configure—enable-experimental” at compile time. Please note that we do not accept bug reports against 0.90RC1.1 anymore.

Our donate page now features a PayPal button. Keeping the virus database up to date is a time consuming task: we need to process a lot of malware every day and generate new signatures for it. The ClamAV team provides you with timely updates and continuosly implement new features to make your favourite antivirus (and its derivative products) more effective.