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.
Key Features
- 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.
Website: www.clamav.net
Support: Documentation
Developer: Tomasz Kojm
License: GNU General Public License
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