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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Open Source Anti Virus - Clam AV





Clam AV is open source anti virus engine that develop by community. It was very famous for Gateway level of scanning, however today Source Fire had release Clam AV Windows edition which most of the basic features are free, only advance and support need additional charge only.

Here are the info from Clam AV website:

ClamAV is an open source (GPL) antivirus engine designed for detecting Trojans, viruses, malware and other malicious threats. It is the de facto standard for mail gateway scanning. It provides a high performance mutli-threaded scanning daemon, command line utilities for on demand file scanning, and an intelligent tool for automatic signature updates. The core ClamAV library provides numerous file format detection mechanisms, file unpacking support, archive support, and multiple signature languages for detecting threats. The core ClamAV library is utilized in Immunet 3.0, powered by ClamAV, which is a fast, fully featured Desktop AV solution for Windows.

Immunet 3.0, powered by ClamAV is a fast, fully featured Windows desktop Anti-Virus (AV) solution that utilizes the power of advanced cloud based detection techniques and the strength of the time tested ClamAV engine. This unique combination of technologies allows for a highly effective approach to today’s fast moving malware threats.
Features:

• Real-time detection

• Scheduled scanning

• Intelligent Scanning – Fast and configurable smart scans

• Custom Detection – Using the de facto standard ClamAV signature language

• Advanced archive and packer support

• Fast and light system footprint

• Quarantine

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