The ClamAv Wiki is currently down. It hadn't been updated for some time (several years!) and it was time to covert it into something more useable.
We are currently converting the relevant documentation that was in the Wiki into something more useful and it will be forthcoming.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
Earlier this week we announced a new chapter for ClamAV with the departure of Tomasz Kojm, Alberto Wu, Luca Gibelli and Edwin Török. While we are sad to see them go, we are grateful for the contributions they have made and are committed to carrying on the project with the community in mind.
As Tomasz mentioned in his own email, ClamAV just had its 10th birthday. Over the years we've been able to integrate ClamAV into our own product suite and it is now used by millions of mail filters, operating systems and millions of file scans per day. It's big, and we want it to be even bigger, with open source commitment at its core.
So, now that we've begun this new chapter, I’d like to introduce you to some new members of the ClamAV team. These folks might be new to ClamAV, but they have been with the Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) for quite some time, and all have worked on other open source projects. Without further ado, they are:
Matthew Olney is the project development lead for ClamAV and lead architect for the Razorback framework. Pulling from his experience as a network and security engineer, he’s also a detection specialist for Snort and a frequent contributor of signatures to the ClamAV engine itself.
Ryan Pentney is the lead bytecode engine developer for ClamAV; a perfect complement to his role as lead developer for file format detection for the Razorback framework. He also is a contributor to both the Snort and ClamAV engines.
Tom Judge has a strong background in systems and security operations. He is a FreeBSD committer, a lead developer for the Razorback framework and a long-time user of ClamAV. On the ClamAV development team, he concentrates on FireAMP integration, virtual machine interfacing and freshclam development.
David Raynor is the core engine developer for ClamAV. He was a developer of a major scalable security system for the United States Department of Homeland Security before coming to Sourcefire.
Nigel Houghton has been with Sourcefire as the lead of the Department of Intelligence Excellence for almost 10 years. Nigel has vast knowledge of programming, operating systems, administration, and security. His team is responsible for the ClamAV supporting infrastructure as well as releasing signature updates.
As I mentioned, all of the above are members of the VRT, led by Matt Watchinski, who has overseen the ClamAV project since Sourcefire acquired it in 2007. We remain committed to continuing the open source nature of the project, pushing the growth of the project even farther.
As always, you can reach us on the ClamAV Mailing lists found here: http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/ml/. We look forward to hearing your ideas and feedback. Thanks for using ClamAV and we look forward to working with you.
Joel Esler
Open Source Community Manager
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
Sourcefire
As Tomasz mentioned in his own email, ClamAV just had its 10th birthday. Over the years we've been able to integrate ClamAV into our own product suite and it is now used by millions of mail filters, operating systems and millions of file scans per day. It's big, and we want it to be even bigger, with open source commitment at its core.
So, now that we've begun this new chapter, I’d like to introduce you to some new members of the ClamAV team. These folks might be new to ClamAV, but they have been with the Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) for quite some time, and all have worked on other open source projects. Without further ado, they are:
Matthew Olney is the project development lead for ClamAV and lead architect for the Razorback framework. Pulling from his experience as a network and security engineer, he’s also a detection specialist for Snort and a frequent contributor of signatures to the ClamAV engine itself.
Ryan Pentney is the lead bytecode engine developer for ClamAV; a perfect complement to his role as lead developer for file format detection for the Razorback framework. He also is a contributor to both the Snort and ClamAV engines.
Tom Judge has a strong background in systems and security operations. He is a FreeBSD committer, a lead developer for the Razorback framework and a long-time user of ClamAV. On the ClamAV development team, he concentrates on FireAMP integration, virtual machine interfacing and freshclam development.
David Raynor is the core engine developer for ClamAV. He was a developer of a major scalable security system for the United States Department of Homeland Security before coming to Sourcefire.
Nigel Houghton has been with Sourcefire as the lead of the Department of Intelligence Excellence for almost 10 years. Nigel has vast knowledge of programming, operating systems, administration, and security. His team is responsible for the ClamAV supporting infrastructure as well as releasing signature updates.
As I mentioned, all of the above are members of the VRT, led by Matt Watchinski, who has overseen the ClamAV project since Sourcefire acquired it in 2007. We remain committed to continuing the open source nature of the project, pushing the growth of the project even farther.
As always, you can reach us on the ClamAV Mailing lists found here: http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/ml/. We look forward to hearing your ideas and feedback. Thanks for using ClamAV and we look forward to working with you.
Joel Esler
Open Source Community Manager
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
Sourcefire
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Earlier today, Tomasz Kojm sent an email to the ClamAV mailing list on behalf of himself and three of his teammates - Alberto Wu, Luca Gibelli, Edwin Török. As he wrote in his email, since they joined us via acquisition in 2007, we’ve been able to work together on some great projects. And now, as we celebrate the 10-year anniversary of ClamAV, the team has decided to move onto new development projects outside of Sourcefire. From his email:
Now, what does this mean for you, our ClamAV users and community? The good news is that I will continue to oversee the development project, as I have done since our acquisition of the company in 2007. Joel Esler, our Open Source community manager, will still be your main point of contact. I do want you to be aware of a few changes to come:
If you need to reach us for any reason, email vrt@sourcefire.com. In the meantime, please join me in expressing thanks to Tomasz, Alberto, Luca and Edwin for all of their contributions to the ClamAV project.
“...it is time for us to make a change. ClamAV is now mature software and we are confident that Sourcefire will successfully continue its development, move it forward and maintain the integrity of its infrastructure.”And mature it has. Today the solution has more than 2 million active installations and scans hundreds of millions of files every day. I am incredibly proud of the leadership of Tomasz and the tenacity of his team in all of these development projects. While I am remiss to see them go, I am excited and looking forward to what they come up with next.
Now, what does this mean for you, our ClamAV users and community? The good news is that I will continue to oversee the development project, as I have done since our acquisition of the company in 2007. Joel Esler, our Open Source community manager, will still be your main point of contact. I do want you to be aware of a few changes to come:
- ClamAV source package signing. The signing key will no longer be tkojm@clamav.net. It will be research@sourcefire.com. This is the main VRT GPG key, and has been signed by tkojm@clamav.net.
- New faces
- Matt Olney
- David Raynor
- Tom Judge
- Nigel Houghton
- 0.97.5 New Release
If you need to reach us for any reason, email vrt@sourcefire.com. In the meantime, please join me in expressing thanks to Tomasz, Alberto, Luca and Edwin for all of their contributions to the ClamAV project.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Just released is version 0.97.5 of ClamAV. Below is the changelog:
Fri Jun 1 13:15:50 EST 2012 (dar)
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* libclamav: Scan output at end of truncated tar (bb#4625)
Wed May 30 17:27:00 EST 2012 (dar)
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* libclamav: Fix handling of tar file with malformed header
(bb#4627)
Fri May 25 13:05:40 EST 2012 (dar)
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* libclamav: Scan chm with invalid handling (bb#4626)
Thu May 10 15:45:56 CEST 2012 (tk)
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* freshclam: give custom dbs higher priority during update
Tue May 8 15:31:51 CEST 2012 (acab)
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* libclamav: detect read races and abort the scan with an error
(bb#4669)
Tue Apr 10 17:04:20 CEST 2012 (tk)
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* libclamav/pe.c: drop old header check (bb#4699)
We are currently experiencing some problems updating our freshmeat account, however, in the meantime ClamAV, as always, is available from http://www.clamav.net
Friday, June 1, 2012
I wanted to call attention to a series of blog posts that Alain is writing over on the VRT blog about the ContentIQ test and ClamAV's results with that test. Enjoy:
http://blog.talosintel.com/2012/02/clamav-vs-content-iq-test-part-1.html
http://blog.talosintel.com/2012/03/clamav-vs-content-iq-test-part-2.html
http://blog.talosintel.com/2012/04/clamav-vs-content-iq-test-part-3.html
http://blog.talosintel.com/2012/02/clamav-vs-content-iq-test-part-1.html
http://blog.talosintel.com/2012/03/clamav-vs-content-iq-test-part-2.html
http://blog.talosintel.com/2012/04/clamav-vs-content-iq-test-part-3.html
Monday, May 28, 2012
In this article over at CNET, one of the things they discuss is using An Ubuntu Live CD, included with ClamAV to help repair infected computers.
Article here
Article here
Monday, April 9, 2012
The VRT is looking for an Intern to assist with the ClamAV and Razorback projects. If you are a C coder, we'd like to hear from you.
We are looking for resumes sent to research [at] sourcefire.com. Please let us know that you are interested in the Intern position with the VRT, and that you saw the blog post here on the ClamAV blog!
We are looking for resumes sent to research [at] sourcefire.com. Please let us know that you are interested in the Intern position with the VRT, and that you saw the blog post here on the ClamAV blog!
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The ClamAuth kernel extension enables ClamAV to provide on-access scanning for Mac OS X 10.5 and later.
The current version works in a passive mode only - ClamAV will log the detection but won't block access to the infected file. However, it's possible to perform special actions (eg. quarantine files) with the VirusEvent directive of clamd.
Usage
-----
1. Run ClamAuth_load to load the kernel extension (you can edit the script to change or add more paths that will be monitored).
2. Add "ClamAuth yes" to your clamd.conf (ClamAV 0.97.4) or "ScanOnAccess yes" (ClamAV-devel)
3. Start clamd with root privileges ('sudo /usr/local/sbin/clamd')
If clamd properly connects to the driver, you should see a line like this in the log file:
ClamAV is now monitoring the paths specified in ClamAuth_load.
If you have any questions or feedback about this module please send it to the ClamAV mailing list here:
http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/ml/
The current version works in a passive mode only - ClamAV will log the detection but won't block access to the infected file. However, it's possible to perform special actions (eg. quarantine files) with the VirusEvent directive of clamd.
Usage
-----
1. Run ClamAuth_load to load the kernel extension (you can edit the script to change or add more paths that will be monitored).
2. Add "ClamAuth yes" to your clamd.conf (ClamAV 0.97.4) or "ScanOnAccess yes" (ClamAV-devel)
3. Start clamd with root privileges ('sudo /usr/local/sbin/clamd')
If clamd properly connects to the driver, you should see a line like this in the log file:
ClamAuth: Driver version: 0.3, protocol version: 2
ClamAV is now monitoring the paths specified in ClamAuth_load.
If you have any questions or feedback about this module please send it to the ClamAV mailing list here:
http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/ml/
Monday, March 19, 2012
ClamAV 0.97.4 includes minor bugfixes, detection improvements and
initial support for on-access scanning under Mac OS X (see
contrib/ClamAuth).
This update is recommended for all users.
Download : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.97.4.tar.gz
PGP sig : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.97.4.tar.gz.sig
Bugfixes : http://www.clamav.net/release-info/bugs/0.97.4
ChangeLog: http://www.clamav.net/release-info/changelog/0.97.4
initial support for on-access scanning under Mac OS X (see
contrib/ClamAuth).
This update is recommended for all users.
Wed Feb 29 18:35:45 CET 2012 (acab)
-----------------------------------
* libclamav/bytecode.c: reset to BYTECODE_AUTO mode at db reload so that
we don't fail to re-enable or re-disable it again
(bb#3789)
Tue Jan 17 11:15:57 CET 2012 (acab)
-----------------------------------
* misc: performance improvement for HP-UX PA-RISC - patch from
Michael Pelletier <michael.v.pelletier*raytheon.com> (bb#3926)
Fri Nov 4 00:52:21 CET 2011 (acab)
-----------------------------------
* libclamav/pe.c: parse vinfo where varfileinfo occours before stringfileinfo
(bb#3062)
Fri Mar 2 19:48:36 CET 2012 (tk)
---------------------------------
* clamd: add support for on-access scanning on OS X with ClamAuth (beta)
Wed Feb 29 17:02:18 EET 2012 (edwin)
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* libclamav/bytecode_api*: Fix Sparc crash (bb #4324)
Tue Feb 7 23:23:48 CET 2012 (tk)
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* libclamav: fix bytecode whitelisting
Wed Jan 25 18:56:44 CET 2012 (tk)
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* libclamav: fix macro detection in OLE2BlockMacros (bb#4269)
Thu Dec 1 15:07:49 CET 2011 (tk)
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* libclamav/readdb.c: allow comments in all db files (bb#3930)
Fri Nov 18 15:23:50 CET 2011 (tk)
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* libclamav/scanners.c: use lsigs when scanning vba data (bb#3922)
Fri Nov 18 15:48:59 EET 2011 (edwin)
-----------------------------------
* libclamav/matcher-hash.c: Fix SIGBUS on PA-RISC (big-endian) architectures (bb #3894).
Download : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.97.4.tar.gz
PGP sig : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.97.4.tar.gz.sig
Bugfixes : http://www.clamav.net/release-info/bugs/0.97.4
ChangeLog: http://www.clamav.net/release-info/changelog/0.97.4
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