ClamAV

Description
Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon in the clamav-daemon package, a command-line scanner in the clamav package, and a tool for automatic updating via the Internet in the clamav-freshclam package. The programs are based on libclamav6, which can be used by other software.

This package contains the command line interface. Features:
- built-in support for various archive formats, including Zip, 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 Microsoft
Office and Mac Office files, HTML, RTF and PDF.

For scanning to work, a virus database is needed. There are two options for getting it:
- clamav-freshclam: updates the database from Internet. This is
recommended with Internet access.
- clamav-data: for users without Internet access. The package is
not updated once installed. The clamav-getfiles package allows
creating custom packages from an Internet-connected computer.
Interface: Command Line
Associated Programs
clamav-base anti-virus utility for Unix - base package
clamav-docs anti-virus utility for Unix - documentation
Available deb Repositories (how-to add a respository)
Debian 32-bit 64-bit
stable 0.97.6+dfsg-1~squeeze1 0.97.6+dfsg-1~squeeze1
testing 0.97.7+dfsg-1 0.97.7+dfsg-1
sid 0.97.8+dfsg-1 0.97.8+dfsg-1

Ubuntu 32-bit 64-bit
hardy 0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1 0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1
lucid 0.96+dfsg-2ubuntu1 0.96+dfsg-2ubuntu1
oneiric 0.97.2+dfsg-1ubuntu2 0.97.2+dfsg-1ubuntu2
precise 0.97.3+dfsg-2.1ubuntu1 0.97.3+dfsg-2.1ubuntu1
quantal 0.97.6+dfsg-1ubuntu1 0.97.6+dfsg-1ubuntu1

Available rpm Repositories
OpenSUSE 32-bit 64-bit
10.1 0.88.2-3 0.88.2-3
11.0 0.93-19.1 0.93-19.1

Rating: Excellent (2 votes)


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