Clam AntiVirus 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.
Here is a list of the main features:
* command-line scanner
* POSIX compliant, portable
* fast, multi-threaded daemon with support for on-access scanning
* detects over 530,000 viruses, worms and trojans, including Microsoft Office macro viruses, mobile malware, and other threats
* milter interface for sendmail
* advanced database updater with support for scripted updates and digital signatures and DNS based database version queries
* virus scanner C library
* on-access scanning (Linux and FreeBSD only)
* virus database updated multiple times per day
* built-in support for various archive formats, including Zip (including SFX), RAR (including SFX), ARJ (including SFX), Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, MS OLE2, MS Cabinet Files (including SFX), MS CHM (Compiled HTML), BinHex, SIS (SymbianOS packages), AutoIt and others
* built-in support for almost all mail file formats
* built-in support for ELF executables and Portable Executable (32/64-bit) files compressed with AsPack, UPX, FSG, Petite, PeSpin, 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, PDF, files encrypted with CryptFF and ScrEnc, uuencode and TNEF (winmail.dat)
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