Clam AntiVirus
Introduction
ClamAV is an open source antivirus toolkit. ClamAV is used in the following ways:
- Filtering attatchments at the SMTP server.
- HTTP, FTP, and POP3 proxy scanning.
- Scanning filesystems on access or demand.
- Plugins for mail client software.
ClamAV is supported by many commercial and open source products on multiple operating systems.
Features
- Detects over 31000 malicious software.
- Scans archive and compressed files such as Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, Microsoft cabinet files, and several others.
- Advanced database updater with support for digital signatures.
- Scans binary files packed with utilities such as UPX and FSG.
Advantages
- On-access scanning for Linux and FreeBSD.
- Fast, multi-threaded daemon.
- Built-in support for archive, packed binary, and compressed files.
- C library can extend ClamAV functionality to many other products.
- Free
Disadvantages
- ClamWin does not include on-access scanning.
- Fewer malicious software definitions.
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