ClamAV is an open source (GPL) antivirus engine designed for detecting Trojans, viruses, malware and other malicious threats. It is the de facto standard for mail gateway scanning. It provides a high performance mutli-threaded scanning daemon, command line utilities for on demand file scanning, and an intelligent tool for automatic signature updates. The core ClamAV library provides numerous file format detection mechanisms, file unpacking support, archive support, and multiple signature languages for detecting threats. The core ClamAV library is utilized in Immunet 3.0, powered by ClamAV, which is a fast, fully featured Desktop AV solution for Windows.
Latest ClamAV® stable release is: 0.97.3
Windows Antivirus - Immunet 3.0, powered by ClamAV (Learn more) 
ClamAV Virus Databases:
main.cvd ver. 54 released on 11 Oct 2011 10:34 :0400 (sig count: 1044387)
daily.cvd ver. 14437 released on 12 Feb 2012 11:15 :0500 (sig count: 93437)
bytecode.cvd ver. 167 released on 09 Feb 2012 08:57 :0500 (sig count: 40)
safebrowsing.cvd ver. 35941 released on 12 Feb 2012 11:45 :0500 (sig count: 1285093)
There are no Release Candidates currently planned.
May 10th, 2011 Posted by - webmaster
Wanted to let the readers of this blog know that the VRT has published a blog post concerning the MacDefender OSX Malware over on its blog.
Please check out the post: MacDefender and its variants…
April 3rd, 2011 Posted by - webmaster
Annually, Sourcefire provides a Snort Scholarship to two individuals selected at random (by drawing) in the amount of $5000 US for higher education purposes.
To be eligible, you must meet the…
March 30th, 2011 Posted by - webmaster
Here’s an interesting article on integrating ClamAV with PureFTPD on OpenSUSE. From the article:
This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on an OpenSUSE…
March 30th, 2011 Posted by - webmaster
Millions of people manage ClamAV installations everyday, and the millions of users protected by those installations reap the benefits of its protection engines as their first line of defense against malware threats. ClamAV is deployed inside numerous global ISPs, national telcos, hosting providers, and is utilized by numerous AV gateway vendors like Barracuda and OS vendors like Apple. Without specifically counting all the installations, it’s a pretty easy guess that ClamAV probably has the largest email AV presence (Read more...)
March 30th, 2011 Posted by - webmaster
This article over at Datamation talks about 59 Open Source Tools that can Replace Popular Security Software.
It talks about ClamAV in two instances, saying that ClamAV is a replacement for…
