ClamAV
Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit, 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.
Features include:
- Command-line scanner
- Fast, multi-threaded daemon with support for on-access
scanning
- Milter interface for sendmail
- Advanced database updater with support for scripted updates
and digital signatures
- Virus scanner C library
- On-access scanning
- Virus database updated multiple times per day (see home
page for total number of signatures)
- Built-in support for various archive formats, including
Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS and others
- Built-in support for almost all mail file formats
- Built-in
support for ELF executables and Portable Executable files compressed
with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, Upack and obfuscated with
SUE, Y0da Cryptor and others
- Built-in support for popular document formats including MS
Office and MacOffice files, HTML, RTF and PDF
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