ClamAV – A very good antivirus option

ClamAv Antivirus is open source antivirus software (GPL license) for Windows, Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. The ClamAv Antivirus project was founded in 2001 by Tomasz Kojm. It currently has a deployment of more than 500,000 servers around the world. ClamAV was born as an opensource project that aims to identify and block viruses on the system. ClamAv’s first goal was to combat email malware. As a consequence, ClamAv is being used in a large number of email servers.

ClamAV Features

His main function is the identification and blocking of malware coming from email. One of the main characteristics of this type of software is the rapid location and inclusion in its database of new viruses found and scanned. This is achieved thanks to the collaboration of the thousands of users who use ClamAv and to multiple sites that provide scanned virus logs.

The architecture is scalable and flexible thanks to a multi-threaded process. It has a powerful monitor integrated with the command line and tools to update the databases automatically. Another key piece of ClamAV is the developer support it has around the world; this global developer network.

It has fast scanning of archives and compressed files such as: Zip (including SFX), RAR (including SFX), 7Zip, ARJ (including SFX), Tar, CPIO, Gzip, Bzip2, DMG, IMG, ISO 9660, PKG and many more likewise, it is possible to detect around 320,000 viruses, worms and Trojans, including viruses programmed as Microsoft Office macros.

This antivirus supports 32/64 bit platforms as well as most email formats and special formats such as: HTML, RTF, PDF, CryptFF, SCREnc, uuencode, TNEF.

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