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: 0.97.4
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. 14941 released on 20 May 2012 15:05 :0400 (sig count: 174097)
bytecode.cvd ver. 180 released on 18 May 2012 12:58 :0400 (sig count: 41)
safebrowsing.cvd ver. 38818 released on 17 May 2012 20:45 :0400 (sig count: 1273177)
There are no Release Candidates currently planned.
March 30th, 2011 Posted by - webmaster
Check out this test over at the Malware Research Group. The MRG tests most of the top anti-malware software vendors for coverage and features and it turns out as a result of this particular…
April 2nd, 2010 Posted by - webmaster
ClamAV 0.96 introduces new malware detection mechanisms and other
significant improvements to the scan engine. The key features are:
October 5th, 2009 Posted by - webmaster
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...)
June 23rd, 2009 Posted by - webmaster
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!
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June 11th, 2009 Posted by - webmaster
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:
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