ClamAV : An Effective Anti Virus Written Specially for Linux

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Now, many, well recognized anti virus companies had started to build anti virus systems for Linux. They might be well experienced on Windows systems, but they are still infants for Linux! But, there are some anti virus systems which were written specially for Linux. They have ruled the Linux market for many years!

Clam Anti Virus, is one of the most famous and one of the most successful anti virus system for Linux. We have already written about Avast and Bitdefender anti virus systems. We know that, when it comes to Windows, Bitdefender and Avast are big giants! But they still have more to explore in Linux. So, Clam AV can do better then them on Linux. Actually, Clam AV have ditected more malware in my Linux system than other anti viruses.

Originally Clam AV comes as a command line scanner. But thanks to ClamTk, now we have a graphical interface for ClamAV!

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

How to Get ClamAV :

You can download it from the ClamTk Download page : http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamtk/files/

Screen-shots :

ClamAV GUI

ClamAV Scan

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TechChunks

January 29, 2010 | 9:55 pm

First it was AVG who came with an antivirus for Linux.

Then came Kaspersky and they Released Anti-Virus for Mac (http://techchunks.com/technology/kaspersky-releases-anti-virus-for-mac/)

Now it is ClamAV with an antivirus for Linux.

Who said that Non-Windows OS were safe from malwares? ;)
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Pubudu Kodikara
January 30, 2010 | 9:09 am

hehe……. actually my friend…. linux is not completely safe…. it is safer than windows but not completely safe :P thats why we need some protection….. but most of the time we can survive without any protection on Linux! :D
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February 3, 2010 | 3:50 pm

I personally think they all do pretty much the same. You should only have one Antivirus protection on your pc at a time. As far as free programs, you can go to download.com and type in antivirus and they can give you a list of them. If you are an AT&T DSL customer they have online protection that is free to you. You just have to download it.

Pubudu Kodikara
February 5, 2010 | 8:50 am

sorry bro, download.com do not have software for Linux!
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