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ClamAV for Linux is an open source (GPL) anti-virus engine used in a variety of situations including email scanning, web scanning, and end point security. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and an advanced tool for automatic database updates.

ClamAV for Linux is an open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats.

Here is a list of the main 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 (Linux® and FreeBSD®)
* 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

High Performance
ClamAV includes a multi-threaded scanner daemon, command line utilities for on demand file scanning and automatic signature updates.

Versatile
ClamAV supports multiple file formats, file and archive unpacking, and multiple signature languages.

Open Source
Access to ClamAV versions that work with your operating system