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ClamAV

Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, 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...

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  • Mac
  • Windows  2 versions 32 + 64 bit: Win.XP, Vista, Win 7
  • Linux
  • BSD
ClamAV for Windows
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  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

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  1.  Ad-free
  2.  No Tracking
  3.  Graphical User Interface
  4.  Block Trackers
  5.  Dark Mode
  6.  Works Offline
  7.  Malware Analysis

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Top Positive Comment
kaspian
0

my personal favorite, lightweight, fast, 100% free and open source

RemovedUser
1

After installation, there's no icon on the desktop, start menu, or anything! Just the program files, and there are lots of .exe files that when you click on them, nothing happens. WTF!!!?

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Renaultos
3

Has been in an early alpha version for decades and recognizes nothing.

duckrinium
8

Cisco, owner of clamav, blocked Russian region from receiving antivirus database, making it completely useless in Russia. Not very freedom of Cisco. But overall, great malware detection tool.

RemovedUser
0

ClamAV only makes sense for Linux and is not used to protect Linux users but Windows users, in case several people using both Windows and Linux are working in a network, you don't need Antivirus on Linux, but if you need to send an .exe file to a colleague on Windows, ClamAV allows you to check it and avoid sending an infected file to your colleague.

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micbusin
-7

Garbage. After installing from official repo: "WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd through /run/clamav/clamd.ctl: No such file or directory"

duckrinium

Probably very late but you have to update database first :) by using "freshclam" as root.

ruskelljd
-5

At least if you are a Mac user you have to edit a hidden file but after almost two hours of looking I couldn't find what to edit it to. Not real helpful changing preferences if you don't know what to change it to so I guess I'll never bother looking into this antivirus app again.

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What is ClamAV?

Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, 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.

ClamAVis also available for Windows as the result of a partnership between Immunet Corporation (http://www.immunet.com) and Sourcefire, Inc. (http://www.sourcefire.com). It is designed to provide the ClamAV community with a free Windows-specific Anti-Virus (AV) solution using an advanced Cloud-based protection mechanism. Smallest of all AV-applications: only 3.45MB download-file (32bit). You can use ClamAV For Windows as a stand-alone, host-based AV solution, or in conjunction with your pre-installed AV solution to provide enhanced detection for the latest malware threats.

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  •  7,247 Stars
  •  925 Forks
  •  395 Open Issues
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Our users have written 8 comments and reviews about ClamAV, and it has gotten 257 likes

ClamAV was added to AlternativeTo by HenrikHedman on and this page was last updated . ClamAV is sometimes referred to as Clam AntiVirus.