
It's packaged in Format for easy use from any portable device and integration with the Platform. ClamWin Portable is the popular ClamWin antivirus packaged as a portable app, so you can take your antivirus with you to scan files on the go. AhnLab, the top antivirus, detected 80.A new version of ClamWin Portable has been released. In a Shadowserver six-month test between June and December 2011, ClamAV detected over 75.45% of all viruses tested, putting it in fifth place behind AhnLab, Avira, BitDefender and Avast. In the 2008 AV-Test it rated: on-demand: very poor, false positives: poor, on-access: poor, response time: very good, rootkits: very poor. Out of the 25 million samples tested, ClamAV scored 76.60% ranking 12 out of 19, a higher rating than some much more established competitors.ĬlamAV was included in comparative tests against other antivirus products. In 2011, Shadowserver tested over 25 million samples against ClamAV and numerous other antivirus products. The ClamAV virus database is updated several times each day and as of 30 October 2011 contained 1,063,024 virus signatures with the daily update Virus DB number at 13867.ĬlamAV is currently tested daily in comparative tests against other antivirus products on Shadowserver. It also supports many document formats, including Microsoft Office, HTML, Rich Text Format (RTF) and Portable Document Format (PDF). It has support for Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS formats, most mail file formats, ELF executables and Portable Executable (PE) files compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, Upack and obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor.

The application also features a Milter interface for sendmail and on-demand scanning. Sourcefire, now acquired by Cisco, a maker of intrusion detection products and the owner of Snort, announced on 17 August 2007 that it had acquired the trademarks and copyrights to ClamAV from five key developers.ĬlamAV includes a number of utilities: a command-line scanner, automatic database updater and a scalable multi-threaded daemon, running on an anti-virus engine from a shared library. Both ClamAV and its updates are made available free of charge.

As of version 0.97.5, ClamAV builds and runs on Microsoft Windows.

The application was developed for Unix and has third party versions available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, OpenVMS, OSF (Tru64) and Solaris. One of its main uses is on mail servers as a server-side email virus scanner. ClamAV is an open-source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats.
