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Introduction</A>
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    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.

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