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.
August 10th, 2011 Posted by - webmaster
An interesting article over on DarkReading highlighting one of the presentations Sourcefire gave at BlackHat 2011 last week in Las Vegas, NV by our Malware group.
http://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/167901092/security/antivirus/231300516/70-percent-of-infected-consumer-machines-hit-with-multiple-malware-types.html
“Overall, one out of every six or seven consumer machines is infected, according to new malware statistics gathered from Sourcefire’s software-based ClamAV and cloud-based Immunet customers during the first three weeks of July.”
Head on over to the above link for the full article.
July 25th, 2011 Posted by - webmaster
July 20th, 2011 Posted by - webmaster
—————- SCAN SUMMARY—————-
Known viruses: 1000066
Engine version: 0.97.1
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 1
Seven years ago i published my first database update, it was number 232 and at this time our database contained less than 10.000 signatures. Today, after more than 13.000 updates we crossed the 1 million signature line.
So much work done by so many people – I thought that’s worth a post. :-)
June 11th, 2011 Posted by - webmaster
Recently the ClamAV team here at Sourcefire released version 0.97.1 of the software. You can grab it here. Please see the below pasted changelog for ClamAV since the last version:
Thu Jun…
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…
