About ClamAV®


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...)


Latest Stable Release


Latest ClamAV® stable release is: 0.95.3
Total number of signatures: 655181
ClamAV Virus Databases:
main.cvd ver. 51 released on 14 May 2009 10:28 :0400
daily.cvd ver. 10055 released on 21 Nov 2009 07:43 :0500


Latest Development Release (Release Candidates)


There are no Release Candidates currently planned. See our roadmap.


News


ClamAV webinar recording available

June 12th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster

On Wednesday 11th June 2008, ClamAV author and Sourcefire’s ClamAV CTO, Tomasz Kojm, gave the first in what we hope will be the first in a series of ClamAV webinars presented by members of the ClamAV team within Sourcefire.

A recording of this event is now available for download.

The slides used during the presentation are available for download.

The presentation lasts approximately one (Read more...)

ClamAV 0.93.1 released

June 9th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster

ClamAV 0.93.1 was released today. This version improves handling of PDF, CAB, RTF, OLE2 and HTML files and includes various bugfixes for 0.93 issues.
You can download it from the usual location.

ClamAV webinar

June 8th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster

You are all invited to attend what we hope will be the first in a series of ClamAV webinars presented by members of the ClamAV team within Sourcefire. The talk, given by ClamAV author and Sourcefire's ClamAV CTO, Tomasz Kojm, will cover a broad introduction to ClamAV. The presentation will last approximately one hour and cover: (Read more...)

Sourcefire’s rejection of unsolicited bid

May 30th, 2008 Posted by - Tomasz

Hi everyone,

As you may have heard, Sourcefire received an unsolicited offer to acquire the company. This morning Sourcefire announced that our board has rejected that offer. The complete press release is available at: http://investor.sourcefire.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=204582&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1152071&highlight=

Survey on bug reporting

May 7th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster

Sourcefire and the ClamAV core team are committed to improving the quality of ClamAV, but we need your help. You can play a critical role in the ClamAV project by participating in the release candidate (RC) process.

While there have been many downloads of the RC version for 0.93, feedback and bug reports on the RC release were few and far between. As you are aware, very shortly after the release of 0.93 a number of bugs were discovered and (Read more...)