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Package: clamav (0.94.dfsg.2-1lenny2)

anti-virus utility for Unix - command-line interface

Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon in the clamav-daemon package, a command-line scanner in the clamav package, and a tool for automatic updating via the Internet in the clamav-freshclam package. The programs are based on libclamav5, which can be used by other software.

This package contains the command line interface. Features: 

 - built-in support for various archive formats, including Zip, Tar,
   Gzip, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS and others;
 - built-in support for almost all mail file formats;
 - built-in support for ELF executables and Portable Executable files
   compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, Upack and
   obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor and others;
 - built-in support for popular document formats including Microsoft
   Office and Mac Office files, HTML, RTF and PDF.

For scanning to work, a virus database is needed. There are two options for getting it: 

 - clamav-freshclam: updates the database from Internet. This is
   recommended with Internet access.
 - clamav-data: for users without Internet access. The package is
   not updated once installed. The clamav-getfiles package allows
   creating custom packages from an Internet-connected computer.

Tags: Implemented in: C, User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Security: Anti-Virus, Purpose: Scanning, Works with: Files, Email

Other Packages Related to clamav

  • depends
  • recommends
  • suggests
  • dep: clamav-freshclam
    anti-virus utility for Unix - virus database update utility
    or clamav-data
    clamav data files
    also a virtual package provided by clamav-freshclam
  • dep: libbz2-1.0
    high-quality block-sorting file compressor library - runtime
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.7-1) [not alpha, ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.7-1) [alpha, ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: libclamav5 (>= 0.94.dfsg.2)
    anti-virus utility for Unix - library
  • dep: libgmp3c2
    Multiprecision arithmetic library
  • dep: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
    compression library - runtime
  • rec: clamav-base
    anti-virus utility for Unix - base package
  • sug: clamav-docs
    anti-virus utility for Unix - documentation
  • sug: lha
    lzh archiver
  • sug: unrar (>= 3.0-1)
    Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)

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arm 225.1 kB404 kB [list of files]
armel 226.3 kB408 kB [list of files]
hppa 228.8 kB404 kB [list of files]
i386 225.8 kB408 kB [list of files]
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