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...)
On 15 April 2010 all ClamAV installations older than 0.95 will be disabled. See http://www.clamav.net/eol-clamav-094/ for more details.
Latest ClamAV® stable release is: 0.96.2
ClamAV for Windows now available! (Learn more) 
Total number of signatures: 826163
ClamAV Virus Databases:
main.cvd ver. 52 released on 15 Feb 2010 09:54 :0500
daily.cvd ver. 11853 released on 09 Sep 2010 00:03 :0400
bytecode.cvd ver. 11853 released on 30 Aug 2010 07:41 :0400
safebrowsing.cvd ver. 11853 released on 09 Sep 2010 03:45 :0400
There are no Release Candidates currently planned.
November 3rd, 2008 Posted by - webmaster
There is one new feature in this release. This feature allows ClamAV users optionally to submit statistics to us about what they detect in the field. We will then use this data to determine what types of Malware/Viruses are the most detected in the field and in what geographic area they are.
It closes the following bugs from http://bugs.clamav.net:
October 30th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster
The next ClamAV users webcast will be Wednesday 3rd December at 1800UTC (1900CEST; 1300EDT).
The presentation, given by Török Edvin, will cover the best practices and common
pitfalls in ClamAV deployment and upgrades.
Date: 3/12/08
Time: 18:00UTC
Presenter: Török Edvin
Title: Common Pitfalls in ClamAV
URL: https://sourcefire.webex.com/sourcefire/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=798925597
Phone Number: Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada) 866-469-3239, Call-in toll number 1-650-429-3300
Event Number: 798 925 597
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September 12th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster
An interesting article on how to write logical signatures is available on Alain’s blog at http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/vrtnews.cgi#38.
Logical signatures have been introduced in the latest stable release of ClamAV.
September 4th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster
On Wednesday 3rd September 2008, ClamAV developer Edvin Torok gave a presentation covering the new features of ClamAV 0.94, such as logical signatures and unit testing, and also its improvements in areas such as anti-phishing and script scanning.
A recording of this event is now available for download.
The slides used during the presentation are available for download in odp and ppt format.
The sources used during the livedemo are available for download as well.
August 28th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster
The next ClamAV users webcast will be Wednesday 3rd September at 1700GMT (1800BST; 1900CEST; 1300EDT).
The presentation, given by Török Edwin, will cover the new features of ClamAV 0.94, (Read more...)
ClamAV for Windows
