July 11th, 2007 Posted by - webmaster
We just received news that ClamAV has been nominated as a SourceForge.net 2007 Community Choice Awards (CCA) finalist for the Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins category. If you are a registered SourceForge user, you have time until July 20th to vote for our project . If you are not registered yet, you can sign up now !
The winning projects will be announced at the SourceForge CCA party on July 26th during OSCON at the Jupiter Hotel in Portland, Oregon. The winners will also be posted on the SourceForge.net website before July 30th.
April 29th, 2007 Posted by - webmaster
The recent article from ITSecurity.com features ClamAV (and some ClamAV third-party related projects) among the best 103 Free Security Apps for Mac, Windows and Linux .
You can read the full article at http://www.itsecurity.com/features/103-free-security-apps-041607/
April 13th, 2007 Posted by - webmaster
PCWorld reports that four antivirus had a quick reaction to the new Storm Worm variant that has recently started spreading:
A huge virus surge of a new Storm Worm variant is flooding email inboxes and evading many antivirus programs. In my tests of 31 programs, only four reported a virus. Postini, an email security company, says that over the last 24 hours it has seen about 55 million virus emails, about 60 times the daily average. [...] At 2:30pm I uploaded the attachment to Virustotal.com, which uses many different antivirus programs to scan uploads. Of 31 programs, only four – ClamAV, eSafe, Kaspersky and Symantec – reported a virus.
You can read the full news on PCWorld website.
March 18th, 2007 Posted by - webmaster
Only one month after reaching the 90.000 goal, our CVDs now contain more than 100.000 signatures!
ClamAV sigmakers have been working really hard to improve the malware coverage of ClamAV: we strive to be more competitive day by day.
New CVD releases are announced on our clamav-virusdb mailing-list. A searchable archive is available.
February 7th, 2007 Posted by - webmaster
PC-welt has a nice article on the latest wave of Worms/Downloader which hit the net in the first week of February: http://www.pcwelt.de/news/sicherheit/71196/index.html.
Here is an excerpt for non German speakers:
With the spam like waves new versions are distributed continuously to prevent detection by virus scanners. This approach is only partly successful, some vendors, like the open source project Clam have developed generic signatures, that are able to detect new variants at a very high level.
