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 ClamAV™ stable release is: 0.94
Total number of signatures: 440993
ClamAV Virus Databases:
main.cvd ver. 48 released on 04 Sep 2008 18:51 +0000
daily.cvd ver. 8412 released on 11 Oct 2008 12:30 +0000
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.
Supported customers will receive the update automatically.
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.
0.94.1RC1 is scheduled for 15/10/08.
There will be one new feature in this release. This feature will
allow ClamAV users optionally to submit statistics to us about what they
detect in the field. We will then use this data to determine what types of
Malware/Viruses are the most detected in the field and in what geographic
area they are.
It will close the following bugs from http://bugs.clamav.net:
684,
777,
828,
832,
954,
1046,
1085,
1092,
1098,
1135,
1137,
1145,
1150 ,
1154,
1155,
1157,
1158,
1160,
1162,
1165,
1174,
1179,
1181,
1184,
1185,
1186,
1187,
1189,
1192,
1196,
1197,
1199,
1201,
1203,
1204,
1205,
1210 ,
1211,
1212,
1213,
1216,
1217,
1219,
1221
We encourage as many people as possible to test this release by downloading
it as soon as it becomes available. If you don't have access to a test machine you can still help by downloading it and checking for us that it compiles and links on your platform and by running "make check".
If you do have a test machine/model/network please help us by loading ClamAV 0.94.1RC1 and testing.
All bug reports should be filed at http://bugs.clamav.net.
We also encourage all 3rd party developers of products and distribution/port
maintainers to download and check this update so that you can go live as soon as the full version is released.
September 12th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster
An interesting article on how to write logical signatures is available on Alain’s blog at http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/vrtnews.cgi#38.
Logical signatures have been introduced in the latest stable release of ClamAV.
September 4th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster
On Wednesday 3rd September 2008, ClamAV developer Edvin Torok gave a presentation covering the new features of ClamAV 0.94, such as logical signatures and unit testing, and also its improvements in areas such as anti-phishing and script scanning.
A recording of this event is now available for download.
The slides used during the presentation are available for download in odp and ppt format.
The sources used during the livedemo are available for download as well.
August 28th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster
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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...)
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!
