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ClamAV For Mac

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A free and open source command-line antivirus designed to protect your Mac by scanning e-mails and mail gateways for viruses, Trojans and other harmful malware. #Antivirus toolkit  #Scan email  #Email scanner  #Antivirus  #Scan  #Scanner  

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ClamAV is a versatile anti-virus engine designed to protect your Mac in a variety of situations by providing end point security, web scanning and e-mail scanning on mail gateways.

Also, ClamAV integrates itself with mail servers thus, providing a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon and a command-line scanner.

To extrapolate the above idea, ClamAV will also protect your Mac from trojans, viruses, malware and other malicious threats with the help of its in-built support for ELF executables and portable executable files scanning, that are packed with UPX, FSG, Petite, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack23, MEW and other packing tools.

Moreover, ClamAV is a very competent anti-virus engine and it proves this by having the ability to scan a wide array of mail file formats and also almost all archive formats such as: Zip, Rar, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, Ole2, Cabinet, Chm, BinHex, Sis and more.

As an added advantage, ClamAV also comes with support for scanning for malware within a large variety of popular document formats such as MS Office files, HTML, RTF, and PDF files.

ClamAV has another handy feature that enables it to automatically update its virus signature database, thus saving you the trouble of doing it yourself manually.

Taking all things into consideration, ClamAV manages to be a competent anti-virus engine for detecting and cleaning viruses and other malware, with support for scanning a wide assortment of file formats, and, in the end, not a bad choice for keeping your Mac malware-free.

What's new in ClamAV 0.99.1:

  • hwp5.x: fix for streams without names
  • libclamav: yara: avoid unaliged access to 64bit variable
  • bb11455 - patch by Mark Allan to add show-progress option to freshclam.
  • added 'CustomXML' as trigger for likely OOXML
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ClamAV 0.99.1

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  runs on:
Mac OS X (-)
  file size:
16 MB
  1 screenshot:
ClamAV - when run with the -h flag in a terminal window, the clamscan tool displays its help message and list all the arguments it supports.
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