Clam AntiVirus 0.92 PDF User Manual

Introduction

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.

1.1 Features
• Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2
• POSIX compliant, portable
• Fast scanning
• Supports on-access scanning (Linux and FreeBSD only)
• Detects over 158.000 viruses, worms and trojans, including Microsoft Office macro viruses, mobile malware, and other threats
• Scans within archives and compressed files (also protects against archive bombs), built-in support includes:
– Zip (including SFX)
– RAR (including SFX)
– ARJ (including SFX)
– Tar
– Gzip
– Bzip2
– MS OLE2
– MS Cabinet Files (including SFX)
– MS CHM (Compiled HTML)
– MS SZDD compression format
– BinHex
– SIS (SymbianOS packages)
• Supports Portable Executable (32/64-bit) files compressed or obfuscated with:
– FSG
– Petite
– NsPack
– wwpack32
– MEW
– Upack
– Y0da Cryptor
• Supports almost all mail file formats
• Support for other special files/formats includes:
– HTML
– RTF
– PDF
– Files encrypted with CryptFF and ScrEnc
– uuencode
– TNEF (winmail.dat)
• Advanced database updater with support for scripted updates, digital signatures and DNS based database version queries

Most popular UNIX operating systems are supported. Clam AntiVirus 0.90 was tested on:
• GNU/Linux
• Solaris
• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD 2
• Mac OS X
Some features may not be available on your operating system. If you are successfully running Clam AntiVirus on a system not listed above please let us know.

Download Clam AntiVirus 0.92 PDF User Manual


January 8, 2010 | Posted in Anti Viruses, Software

Related Info:

Comments

Leave a Reply