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
ClamAV for Windows now available! (Learn more) Download now
Total number of signatures: 727261
ClamAV Virus Databases:
main.cvd ver. 52 released on 15 Feb 2010 09:54 :0500
daily.cvd ver. 10542 released on 09 Mar 2010 17:08 :0500


Latest Development Release (Release Candidates)


0.96rc1 is currently scheduled for March 10. See our roadmap.


News


End of Life Announcement: ClamAV 0.94.x

October 5th, 2009 Posted by - webmaster

All ClamAV releases older than 0.95 are affected by a bug in freshclam which prevents incremental updates from working with signatures longer than 980 bytes. (Read more...)

Sourceforge CCA ‘09: watch the video!

June 23rd, 2009 Posted by - webmaster

Vote for us!

Yesterday Sourceforge announced the finalists for Community Choice Awards 2009. We are glad to let you know that ClamAV was among the 10 projects that collected more nominations in the Best tool for sysadmin category!

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FISL 10 Conference in Brazil

June 11th, 2009 Posted by - webmaster

ClamAV’s own Tomasz Kojm will be giving two talks at the FISL 10 Conference, June 24th through 27th in Porto Alegre Brazil. Abstracts and times for Tomasz’ presentations are below. If you’re attending please stop by and say hi.

June 24 – 2:00pm
“ClamAV Basics, Common Usage, Tips & Tricks”

The presentation will provide a broad introduction to Clam AntiVirus, its main features and advantages. Tomasz will focus his remarks on the following aspects of ClamAV:
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SourceForge.net 2009 Community Choice Awards nominations

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”.

DojoSec June briefings

May 17th, 2009 Posted by - webmaster

Alain Zidouemba will give a talk at DojoSec on the topic: What to do with the unknown.
Here are the meeting details:
Date: June 4, 2009 (Read more...)