
Out of the 25 million samples tested, ClamAV scored 76.60% ranking 12 out of 19, a higher rating than some much more established competitors. In 2011, Shadowserver tested over 25 million samples against ClamAV and numerous other antivirus products.

Effectiveness ĬlamAV is currently tested daily against other antivirus products on Shadowserver.
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The ClamAV virus database is updated at least every four hours and as of 10 February 2017 contained over 5,760,000 virus signatures with the daily update Virus DB number at 23040.


One of its main uses is on mail servers as a server-side email virus scanner. Both ClamAV and its updates are made available free of charge. As of version 0.97.5, ClamAV builds and runs on Microsoft Windows. It was developed for Unix and has third party versions available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, OpenVMS, OSF (Tru64) and Solaris. Unix, AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, WindowsĬlam AntiVirus ( ClamAV) is a free software, cross-platform antimalware toolkit able to detect many types of malware, including viruses.
