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.
April 4th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster
SANS Technology Institute just published an interview with ClamAV project founder Tomasz Kojm.
The interview gives the reader an insight on the origin of the project, the vision that leads its development and the current situation in the malware arena.
A recommended read!
March 12th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster
The number of samples processed, reviewed and published by our sigmaker team today reached one million. This is a great achievement for ClamAV and a sign of how our malware detection rate has greatly improved during the years.
February 20th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster
Sourcefire has expanded eligibility for the $10,000 Snort Scholarship Program to include ClamAV users. If you’d like more information or to apply visit: http://www.sourcefire.com/products/snort/scholarship
December 12th, 2007 Posted by - webmaster
Sourcefire is pleased to introduce a commercial support service for ClamAV. This new service is designed to satisfy the needs of businesses and government agencies that require commercial support be available for open source products in production environments.
Read the press release.
For more information on Certified ClamAV support visit: http://www.sourcefire.com/products/clamav/support
November 20th, 2007 Posted by - webmaster
Come see Luca Gibelli of the ClamAV team will be presenting a talk on Security Governance. The talk is part of the 5th annual Net & System Security Convention. The Conference is scheduled for November 27th, at Pisa’s Palazzo dei Congressi. A brief summary of Luca’s talk is below:
Security Governance: A Systematic Approach to Threat Management
Confidentiality, integrity and availability of information should be recognized as a critical business issue rather than the sole domain of IT. (Read more...)
