Clam AntiVirus
Open source antivirus software
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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What is Clam AntiVirus?
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.
ClamAVis also available for Windows as the result of a partnership between Immunet Corporation (http://www.immunet.com) and Sourcefire, Inc. (http://www.sourcefire.com). It is designed to provide the ClamAV community with a free Windows-specific Anti-Virus (AV) solution using an advanced Cloud-based protection mechanism.
Smallest of all AV-applications: only 3.45MB download-file (32bit).
You can use ClamAV For Windows as a stand-alone, host-based AV solution, or in conjunction with your pre-installed AV solution to provide enhanced detection for the latest malware threats.
ClamAVis also available for Windows as the result of a partnership between Immunet Corporation (http://www.immunet.com) and Sourcefire, Inc. (http://www.sourcefire.com). It is designed to provide the ClamAV community with a free Windows-specific Anti-Virus (AV) solution using an advanced Cloud-based protection mechanism.
Smallest of all AV-applications: only 3.45MB download-file (32bit).
You can use ClamAV For Windows as a stand-alone, host-based AV solution, or in conjunction with your pre-installed AV solution to provide enhanced detection for the latest malware threats.
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Platform details
Windows: 2 versions 32 + 64 bit: Win.XP, Vista, Win 7
Tags
- Anti-Virus
- email-scanning
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Summary
Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Clam AntiVirus, and it has gotten 199 likes
- Developed by Cisco
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 1.6
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- headlines Downvoted a comment on Clam AntiVirusThis is a joke.19 days ago
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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.
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"
This is a joke.
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.