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We’re seeing Linux platforms implementing anti-virus software mainly to scan email messages going in and out for viruses.  Claim AntiVirus is one of them that is free and is widely used.  In this article, we will list several free tools that can be used to make the management of Clam AntiVirus software easier for users and system administrators.

Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.

Here is a list of the main features:

• command-line scanner
• fast, multi-threaded daemon with support for on-access scanning
• milter interface for sendmail
• advanced database updater with support for scripted updates and digital signatures
• virus scanner C library
• on-access scanning (Linux® and FreeBSD®)
• virus database updated multiple times per day (see home page for total number of signatures)
• built-in support for various archive formats, including Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS and others
• built-in support for almost all mail file formats
• built-in support for ELF executables and Portable Executable files compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, Upack and obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor and others

First if you don’t know where to get it from, download Clam AntiVirus from here.  Now use the following tools to make it’s management a piece of cake.

1. ClamTk – a graphical frontend for Clam Antivirus. It is designed to be a lightweight, easy-to-use, point-and-click virus scanner.
2. wbmclamav – a webmin module to manage Clam Antivirus (ClamAV).
3. ClamCour – a multi-threaded Courier filter that allows Clam Antivirus to scan incoming mail for viruses, and rejects it if the check is positive. Attachments can be “quarantined”, and custom domain-based email reports can be sent.
4. lclamav-milter – a small and lightweight Sendmail Clam AntiVirus mail filter (milter). lclamav-milter scans messages for viruses and worms, accepts clean messages, rejects the bad, and helps stop the spread of email viruses and worms.
5. clamaktion – a little utility that allows users of KDE 3.1 and newer to run clamscan (part of the Clam AntiVirus package) from Konqueror’s right-click menu for files and folders. clamaktion finds viruses in RPM packages too.
6. mod_clamav – a virus scanning module which uses the Clam Antivirus (clamav) package to scan Web traffic for viruses.  For Apache!