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: 0.97.5
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. 15108 released on 03 Jul 2012 16:47 :0400 (sig count: 224950)
bytecode.cvd ver. 185 released on 29 May 2012 11:39 :0400 (sig count: 39)
safebrowsing.cvd ver. 39759 released on 03 Jul 2012 20:45 :0400 (sig count: 1304553)
There are no Release Candidates currently planned.
June 24th, 2012 Posted by -
Earlier this week we announced a new chapter for ClamAV with the departure of Tomasz Kojm, Alberto Wu, Luca Gibelli and Edwin Török. While we are sad to see them go, we are grateful for the contributions they have made and are committed to carrying on the project with the community in mind.
As Tomasz mentioned in his own email, ClamAV just had its 10th birthday. Over the years we’ve been able to integrate ClamAV (Read more...)
June 19th, 2012 Posted by - jesler
Earlier today, Tomasz Kojm sent an email to the ClamAV mailing list on behalf of himself and three of his teammates – Alberto Wu, Luca Gibelli, Edwin Török. As he wrote in his email, since they joined us via acquisition in 2007, we’ve been able to work together on some great projects. And now, as we celebrate the 10-year anniversary of ClamAV, the team has decided to move onto new development projects outside of Sourcefire. From his email:
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June 15th, 2012 Posted by - jesler
Just released is version 0.97.5 of ClamAV. Below is the changelog:
Fri Jun 1 13:15:50 EST 2012 (dar)
--------------------------------- * libclamav: Scan output at end of truncated tar (bb#4625)Wed May 30 17:27:00 EST 2012 (dar)
---------------------------------- * libclamav: Fix handling of tar file with malformed header (bb#4627)Fri May 25 13:05:40 EST 2012 (dar)
---------------------------------- * libclamav: Scan chm (Read more...)
June 1st, 2012 Posted by - jesler
I wanted to call attention to a series of blog posts that Alain is writing over on the VRT blog about the ContentIQ test and ClamAV’s results with that test. Enjoy:
http://vrt-blog.snort.org/2012/02/clamav-vs-content-iq-test-part-1.html
http://vrt-blog.snort.org/2012/03/clamav-vs-content-iq-test-part-2.html
http://vrt-blog.snort.org/2012/04/clamav-vs-content-iq-test-part-3.html
May 28th, 2012 Posted by - jesler
In this article over at CNET, one of the things they discuss is using An Ubuntu Lice CD, included with ClamAV to help repair infected computers.
Article here