ClamAV free antivirus has just arrived on the new edition 1.0, some 20 years after it was first released.
ClamAV describes itself as a free, open source, antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware software and other malicious threats. Detection levels are quite low compared to Windows anti-malware programs, but development has been going on for decades. The tool is available σε όλες τις πλατφόρμες, παρόλο που στοχεύει κυρίως στο linux.
ClamAV was recently released its latest version, which can be considered historically significant, as it finally reaches version 1.0.0. It's the first major release and it came just six months after celebrating his 20th birthday!
Tomasz Kojm, the original creator of ClamAV, released the first version (0.10) on May 8, 2002. ClamAV 1.0.0 follows the previous version 0.105.1, bringing new features, compilation warning fixes, and many bug fixes.
ClamAV is an open-source antivirus engine primarily used in Linux environments. The program runs almost everywhere, from open source operating systems (FreeBSD) to macOS server. Starting with version 0.97.5, ClamAV can also run on Windows, although it is not the most popular AV tool for any functional Microsoft system.
Είναι αρκετά διαφορετικό σε σύγκριση με ένα τυπικό πρόγραμμα προστασίας από κακόβουλο λογισμικό για χρήστες Windows. Το εργαλείο εκτελείται από τη γραμμή εντολών και είναι απλώς ένας sweeper κατ' απαίτηση, χωρίς monitoring in real time.
However, ClamAV includes many advanced and complex antivirus features, such as scanning multiple types of compressed files (Zip, Rar, Dmg, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2 and more), multi-threaded parallel scans, built-in support for all standard mail file formats, Elf (Linux) executables and popular document formats, monitoring specific folders/directories for changes and many other.
Being an open source project managed by volunteers, with minimal paid developers, ClamAV is difficult to compare with commercial antivirus packages.
In a old comparative test that conducted by AV-TEST (2015), ClamAV scored poorly in on-demand detection, avoiding false positives, but also detecting the rootkit.