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ClamAV™Setting the Standard for Open Source Anti-malware Software
Renowned for its speed and accuracy, ClamAV has been adopted by network security solution and service providers worldwide and is currently integrated within leading enterprise solutions, including Unified Threat Management Systems (UTM), Secure Web Gateways and Secure Mail Gateways, to identify deeply embedded threats such as viruses, trojans, spyware, and other forms of malware. Like SNORT® (the open source intrusion prevention and detection technology created by Sourcefire®), ClamAV’s cutting edge security technology is a triumph of the open source model. In addition to continual innovations to the ClamAV anti-virus engine, the ClamAV core team and ClamAV community deliver daily signature updates to its ever-growing virus database of over 300,000 signatures. ClamAV 0.94 is coming out Sept. 1, 2008. Check out what's new. High Performance Anti-Virus Protection A Strong Foundation in Open Source Innovation With ClamAV, Sourcefire expands the comprehensive scope of its Enterprise Threat Management (ETM) solution portfolio, delivering a unified security environment for industry-leading Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Vulnerability Assessment (VA), Network Behavior Analysis (NBA), and Network Access Control (NAC) technologies. The ClamAV Engine The ClamAV signature database, updated multiple times a day, currently contains more than 300,000 signatures, including generic signatures that are able to detect new variants at a very high rate of detection. Sourcefire’s enduring commitment and support of the open source security community is reflected in its ongoing investment in technologies such as Snort and ClamAV. The company will continue to enhance ClamAV for open source use and incorporation in Sourcefire commercial solutions – benefiting both the open source community as well as Sourcefire customers. |
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"It's always interesting to try to understand the first acquisitions that a company makes after its IPO as that might be the beginning of a pattern. Sourcefire's recent acquisition of ClamAV, a leading open source gateway anti-virus and anti-malware project, provides an interesting example. It's a really smart strategic move. Sourcefire knows a lot about taking an open source security product to the market as it did with SNORT, so this is both a product line expansion and a consolidation of additional functionality under an overarching business model. With just about a million users, ClamAV is one of the more popular open source security products and it's likely to grow under Sourcefire's umbrella. Plus, this may just be the pattern of more things to follow." |
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Founded in 2002, ClamAV™ Anti-Malware is one of the most commonly-used open source anti-virus and anti-malware products in the world. Nearly one million unique IP addresses download ClamAV updates daily from 120 mirror servers located in 38 countries.