May 18th, 2009 Posted by - webmaster
SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards just opened and we hope to receive your help to nominate ClamAV to one or more categories.
Once all final nominees have been decided, everyone will be able to vote for the projects of their choice in each category. We hope to be nominated in the category “Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins”.
February 9th, 2009 Posted by - webmaster
The next ClamAV® Users’ Webcast will be on Wed 4th March at 1800UTC: 10 AM PST, 1 PM EST, 6 PM GMT, 7 PM CEST. The talk, given by Alain Zidouemba of Sourcefire will be an introduction to writing ClamAV Signatures. The talk will cover about an hour. The talk will be technically advanced, and is aimed toward Systems Administrators and developers.
Abstract
ClamAV is an open source anti-virus toolkit for UNIX systems. The main purpose of this software lies (Read more...)
January 29th, 2009 Posted by - webmaster
Some of you may have heard of a current major outbreak of a virus known as Downadup that has been reported at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7842013.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7832652.stm. It has been estimated that move than 9 million PCs are infected across the world.
ClamAV detects Downadup, also known as Conficker, as Worm.Downadup. Once on a system it downloads components that ClamAV detects as members of the Trojan.Downloader- family of signatures.
The virus primarily exploits MS08-067; it can also spread through USB sticks. Since the virus is not spread by email we don’t expect to see much activity in our core user-base, which tends to use ClamAV to scan emails. We are, nevertheless, keeping an eye out for it through freshclam’s statistics gathering system – we are yet to see any obvious spike of activity from it. If we hear anything we’ll let you know.
November 10th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster
Notifications of ClamAV signature updates are now available via our
Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/clamav. The notifications include information about the number of signatures added and the total number of signatures in the ClamAV database.
We hope to include other information on that feed later so please feel free to let us know (Read more...)
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=
