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: 0.93.3
Total number of signatures: 406175
ClamAV Virus Databases:
main.cvd ver. 47 released on 23 Jun 2008 18:20 +0000
daily.cvd ver. 8120 released on 30 Aug 2008 03:43 +0000



Latest Development Release (Release Candidates)


0.94RC1 is available for download. The feature list includes:

* Improved anti-Phishing technology
* Improved scanning of scripts
* Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
* Improved PUA Detection
* IPv6 support
* More flexibility when scanning remote file systems
* Better scalability for high throughput users
* Improved QA and unit testing
* Improved signature based malware detection

For more details, please refer to Whats New in 0.94
There are no changes to the API in this release, however developers of software based on ClamAV are strongly encouraged to download the release candidate so that they can schedule support of 0.94 when it is published. For further information please contact us.


News


Sourcefire BOSS Conference 8-10 February 2009, Las Vegas USA

August 28th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster

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Sourcefire is pleased to announce the industry’s first-ever IT security conference dedicated to promoting leading open source security (OSS) technologies and the commercial products that embrace them. BOSS brings together passionate OSS advocates and innovative Sourcefire customers and partners under the same roof to share ideas and experiences.

Register by September 30th – Save $200!

Registration is now open! Sourcefire is offering an early bird discount to those who register by (Read more...)

ClamAV 0.94 Webinar

August 28th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster

The next ClamAV users webcast will be Wednesday 3rd September at 1700GMT (1800BST; 1900CEST; 1300EDT).

The presentation, given by Török Edwin, will cover the new features of ClamAV (Read more...)

BOSS Conference - Call for Speakers Closes July 15

June 12th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster

We just wanted to remind everyone that the deadline to submit a speaking application for the BOSS Conference www.bossconference.com is coming up on July 15. We’ve received some outstanding proposals to date – keep them coming in. The speaker application is available at: http://www.bossconference.com/speakers.html

We hope to see you in Vegas!

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 (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.