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ClamAV
Open-source antivirus software / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ClamAV (antivirus) is a free software, cross-platform antimalware toolkit able to detect many types of malware, including viruses. It was developed for Unix and has third party versions available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, OpenVMS, OSF (Tru64), Solaris and Haiku. As of version 0.97.5, ClamAV builds and runs on Microsoft Windows.[2][3] Both ClamAV and its updates are made available free of charge. One of its main uses is on mail servers as a server-side email virus scanner.
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Original author(s) | Tomasz Kojm |
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Developer(s) | Cisco Talos |
Initial release | May 8, 2002; 22 years ago (2002-05-08) |
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Written in | C, C++ |
Operating system | Unix, AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, Windows, Haiku |
Type | Antivirus software |
License | GPL-2.0-only |
Website | www |
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