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FREE and/or Open Source Desktop Software! => System Repair and Other Utilities => Topic started by: Software Santa on April 11, 2007, 04:59:03 PM
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Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX/LINUX
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.
Here is a list of the main features:
* command-line scanner
* fast, multi-threaded daemon with support for on-access scanning
* milter interface for sendmail
* advanced database updater with support for scripted updates and digital signatures
* virus scanner C library
* on-access scanning (Linux® and FreeBSD®)
* virus database updated multiple times per day (see home page for total number of signatures)
* built-in support for various archive formats, including Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS and others
* built-in support for almost all mail file formats
* built-in support for ELF executables and Portable Executable files compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, Upack and obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor and others
* built-in support for popular document formats including MS Office and MacOffice files, HTML, RTF and PDF
http://www.clamav.net/
Categories: anti-virus - system security - unix or linux systems - virus detection