The Best Open Source Malwarebytes Anti-Malware AlternativesTop Anti-Malware & Anti-Virus Apps like Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

The best open source alternative to Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is ClamAV. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and 15 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Malwarebytes Anti-Malware are ClamTk, Tron Script, ClamWin and LoveLaceAV.

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  1. ClamAV icon
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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...

    100 ClamAV alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. ClamTk icon
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    ClamTk is a graphical front-end for ClamAV, an open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats. It is designed to be an easy-to-use, lightweight, on-demand antivirus scanner for Linux systems.

    63 ClamTk alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
     
  3. Tron Script icon
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    Tron is a collection of programs, tools, utilities, and Windows functions that are all scripted together. Those programs and such are designed to remove malware and bloatware, repair damaged operating systems, update old versions of very common applications, free up drive space...

    170 Tron Script alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
     
  4. ClamWin icon
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    ClamWin is a free, open-source antivirus software for Microsoft Windows, using the ClamAV engine. It has an easy-to-use installer and its source code is publicly available. It features high detection rates for viruses and spyware, a scanning scheduler, and automatic updates of...

    67 ClamWin alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  5. LoveLaceAV icon
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    LoveLaceAV is a Hypatia fork, FOSS malware scanner for Android. It is powered by ClamAV style signature databases.

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  6. This is a fork of the original (and discontinued) app, which is still looking for maintainers. Please consider to apply to keep this app maintained !

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  7. Kapitano icon
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    I be Kapitano, yer fearless captain o' the digital seas — a trusty malware hunter set to keep yer Linux shipshape from foul threats!

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  8. LibreAV icon
     5 likes

    Anti-malware for Android using machine learning. Contribute to projectmatris/antimalwareapp development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  9. Security add-on for Windows. Make it considerably harder for unwanted software to get launched. Not through file signatures but through identifying places where executables have no right to be, for example Documents folders.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. CS Anti-Virus icon
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    Provide real time shield, process/memory scanner, file/path scanner, scheduled scans, automatic daily update and use the ClamAV database with over 720.000 virus signatures. CS Anti-Virus with the ClamAV engine is FREE. (GNU/GPL license).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  11. KicomAV icon
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    KicomAV is an open source (GPL v2) antivirus engine designed for detecting malware and disinfecting it. In fact, Since 1995, it has been written in C/C++ and it was integrated into the ViRobot engine of HAURI, 1998. I decided to re-create a new KicomAV.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
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