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 800.000 viruses, worms and trojans, including Microsoft Office macro viruses, mobile malware, and other threats
• Built-in bytecode interpreter allows the ClamAV signature writers to create and distribute very complex detection routines and remotely enhance the scanner's functionality
• Scans within archives and compressed files (also protects against archive bombs), built-in support includes:
  • Zip (including SFX)
  • RAR (including SFX)
  • 7Zip
  • ARJ (including SFX)
  • Tar
  • CPIO
  • Gzip
  • Bzip2
  • MS OLE2
  • MS Cabinet Files (including SFX)
  • MS CHM (Compiled HTML)
  • MS SZDD compression format
  • BinHex
  • SIS (SymbianOS packages)
  • AutoIt
  • InstallShield
• Supports Portable Executable (32/64-bit) files compressed or obfuscated with:
  • AsPack
  • UPX
  • FSG
  • Petite
  • PeSpin
  • NsPack
  • wwpack32
  • MEW
  • Upack
  • Y0da Cryptor
• Supports ELF and Mach-O files (both 32- and 64-bit)
• 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