ClamAV FINALLY Releases Version 1.0.0

[Sammo]

After decades, ClamAV is finally version 1
ClamAVNet

 

[ScandinavianFish]

Release note

Release ClamAV 1.0.0 · Cisco-Talos/clamav

ClamAV 1.0.0 includes the following improvements and changes. Major changes Support for decrypting read-only OLE2-based XLS files that are encrypted with the default password. Use of the default ...

github.com

 

[ForgottenSeer 97327]

Being a lurker for many years, I know @bellgamin had not expected to see that happen.

Mr Bellgamin from pleasant isle Hawai is probably the most senior member of this forum

 

[entropism]

In celebration, ClamAV detects its first virus.

 

[TedCruz]

After decades, ClamAV is finally version 1
ClamAVNet

My wife is an OB GYN I mentioned to her that her business would drop if only her patients installed ClamAV. The poor women's eyes rolled so far back that I thought she died, followed by a massive sigh and the words "if I only knew who you were before we got married". I don't know what she means by that.

 

[entropism]

I mean, there's those surprise trips to Mexico, and being a 100% totally human senator.

 

[Behold Eck]

Thought I heard a giant POP!

Regards Eck

 

[ForgottenSeer 69673]

You would think being version 1.0, it would at least install on my machine buy NO it won't

I mean, there's those surprise trips to Mexico, and being a 100% totally human senator.

Why do you take trips to Mexico? Do you have a Mamasita there?

 

[Alexai]

Now 1.3.0

 

[LennyFox]

Because I installed Linux Mint on my old patato PC, I searched for AntiVirus available for Linux. From what I read, ClamAv is mostly used as just another (free) layer for mail servers

Most website/mail servers run a Linux OS. ClamAV is used with other protection layers like: Firewall + Snort + SPAM assassin + ClamAV + Yara. Combined they should keep out most nasties, before reaching corporate (Windows OS dominated) networks. As far as I understand, it makes sense to use a different OS to protect your main infrastructure, since most attacks are oriented against the windows environment, it is 'safer' to analyse and deconstruct malwares trying to infect your infrastructure. In corporate networks it is just the second layer after the DNS. The third layer is often delivered by commercial security services.

In Linux forums ex-Windows users seeking for an AV and help to use ClamAv in realtime/on demand are often mocked at. Most Linux users seem to use passive AV protection (so I also decided to go with the flow and drop the Windows-urge for AV-protection).