Security News > 2022 > December > Twenty years on, command-line virus scanner ClamAV puts out version 1

The ClamAV command-line virus scanner used on many Linux boxes has attained an important-looking milestone release: version 1.0.0.

It's not really the first finished version, of course.

Open source version numbering is something of a work of fiction, up there with "Of course I love you" and "The check's in the post," but even so, this particular milestone has been a while in coming.

ClamAV, which describes itself as "The open-source standard for mail gateway-scanning software", has finally emitted an official one-point-zero version, only six months after its 20th birthday - and what's more, it's a long-term support release, too.

After a few release candidates, the new version follows version 0.105.1 which appeared in July.

ClamAV is a command-line virus scanner, rather than the sort of real-time antivirus protection program that most Windows users have to be familiar with.

News URL

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2022/12/01/clamav_puts_out_version_1/