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: 0.94.2
Total number of signatures: 469318
ClamAV Virus Databases:
main.cvd ver. 49 released on 22 Oct 2008 22:03 +0000
daily.cvd ver. 8706 released on 02 Dec 2008 00:08 +0000
There are no Release Candidates currently planned.
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...)
November 3rd, 2008 Posted by - webmaster
There is one new feature in this release. This feature allows 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 closes the following bugs from http://bugs.clamav.net:
October 30th, 2008 Posted by - webmaster
The next ClamAV users webcast will be Wednesday 3rd December at 1800UTC (1900CEST; 1300EDT).
The presentation, given by Török Edvin, will cover the best practices and common
pitfalls in ClamAV deployment and upgrades.
Date: 3/12/08
Time: 18:00UTC
Presenter: Török Edvin
Title: Common Pitfalls in ClamAV
URL: https://sourcefire.webex.com/sourcefire/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=798925597
Phone Number: Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada) 866-469-3239, Call-in toll number 1-650-429-3300
Event Number: 798 925 597
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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.
