Clam AntiVirus
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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...
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- Free • Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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ClamAV 1.4 designated as next long-term stable releaseClamAV 1.4 has been designated as the latest Long-Term Stable release after delays in the release o...
- POX published news article about Clam AntiVirus
ClamAV 1.4 ends 32-bit Linux support, adds ARM64 for Windows, and enhances archive supportClamAV, the widely-used open-source antivirus, has launched version 1.4. This update discontinues L...
- POX published news article about Clam AntiVirus
ClamAV 1.3.0 released with enhanced Microsoft OneNote support, and moreClamAV, the widely recognized open source antivirus software, has unveiled its latest update, versi...
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CiscoLicensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Written in
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- 4,832 Stars
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- Updated Mar 14, 2025
Comments and Reviews
my personal favorite, lightweight, fast, 100% free and open source
Just installed it, first thing it did was kill and then remove my IRC software, without asking me. I am not amused. Default settings should be ASK FIRST.
Programs that Do Not Play Nice get removed. Very Quickly.
Has been in an early alpha version for decades and recognizes nothing.
Cisco, owner of clamav, blocked Russian region from receiving antivirus database, making it completely useless in Russia. Not very freedom of Cisco. But overall, great malware detection tool.
ClamAV only makes sense for Linux and is not used to protect Linux users but Windows users, in case several people using both Windows and Linux are working in a network, you don't need Antivirus on Linux, but if you need to send an .exe file to a colleague on Windows, ClamAV allows you to check it and avoid sending an infected file to your colleague.
Garbage. After installing from official repo: "WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd through /run/clamav/clamd.ctl: No such file or directory"
Probably very late but you have to update database first :) by using "freshclam" as root.
Reply written Apr 5, 2022
At least if you are a Mac user you have to edit a hidden file but after almost two hours of looking I couldn't find what to edit it to. Not real helpful changing preferences if you don't know what to change it to so I guess I'll never bother looking into this antivirus app again.