<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 2008 (1.71) original version by: Nikos Drakos, CBLU, University of Leeds * revised and updated by: Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan * with significant contributions from: Jens Lippmann, Marek Rouchal, Martin Wilck and others --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Introduction</TITLE> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Introduction"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="clamdoc"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="LaTeX2HTML v2008"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Style-Type" CONTENT="text/css"> <LINK REL="STYLESHEET" HREF="clamdoc.css"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node6.html"> <LINK REL="previous" HREF="node1.html"> <LINK REL="up" HREF="clamdoc.html"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node3.html"> </HEAD> <BODY > <DIV CLASS="navigation"><!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html248" HREF="node3.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="next.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html244" HREF="clamdoc.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="up.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html238" HREF="node1.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="prev.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html246" HREF="node1.html"> <IMG WIDTH="65" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="contents" SRC="contents.png"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html249" HREF="node3.html">Features</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html245" HREF="clamdoc.html">clamdoc</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html239" HREF="node1.html">Contents</A> <B> <A NAME="tex2html247" HREF="node1.html">Contents</A></B> <BR> <BR></DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H1><A NAME="SECTION00020000000000000000"> Introduction</A> </H1> 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. <P> <BR><HR> <!--Table of Child-Links--> <A NAME="CHILD_LINKS"><STRONG>Subsections</STRONG></A> <UL CLASS="ChildLinks"> <LI><A NAME="tex2html250" HREF="node3.html">Features</A> <LI><A NAME="tex2html251" HREF="node4.html">Mailing lists and IRC channel</A> <LI><A NAME="tex2html252" HREF="node5.html">Virus submitting</A> </UL> <!--End of Table of Child-Links--> <BR><HR> <ADDRESS> Cisco 2015-10-07 </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>