Clam AntiVirus
ClamAV (Clam AntiVirus) is a free software, cross-platform antimalware toolkit able to detect many types of malware, including viruses. It was developed for Unix and has third party versions available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, OpenVMS, OSF (Tru64), Solaris and Haiku. As of version 0.97.5, ClamAV builds and runs on Microsoft Windows. Both ClamAV and its updates are made available free of charge. One of its main uses is on mail servers as a server-side email virus scanner.
Key facts
- Software.name
- ClamAV
- Software.logo
- ClamAV Logo.png
- Software.logo alt
- ClamAV logo
- Software.screenshot
- ClamAV on Linux screenshot.webp
- Software.caption
- ClamAV 1.4.3, running a definition update, scanning a file and identifying an EICAR test file from the command-line
- Software.author
- Tomasz Kojm
- Software.developer
- Cisco Talos
- Software.programming language
- C, C++
- Software.operating system
- Unix, AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, Windows, Haiku
- Software.genre
- Antivirus software
- Software.license
- GPL-2.0-only
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18 sectionsContents
- History
- Patent lawsuit
- Features
- Real-time file scanning
- Effectiveness
- Unofficial databases
- Platforms
- Linux, BSD
- macOS
- OpenVMS
- Windows
- OS/2
- Graphical interfaces
- ClamWin
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
ClamAV (Clam AntiVirus) is a free software, cross-platform antimalware toolkit able to detect many types of malware, including viruses. It was developed for Unix and has third party versions available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, OpenVMS, OSF (Tru64), Solaris and Haiku. As of version 0.97.5, ClamAV builds and runs on Microsoft Windows. Both ClamAV and its updates are made available free of charge. One of its main uses is on mail servers as a server-side email virus scanner.
== History == ClamAV was initially released with version 0.10 on 8 May 2002, by Polish university student Tomasz Kojm. In 2007, it was acquired by Sourcefire, which in turn was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and now operates under its Talos cybersecurity division.