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Java API to Detect Virus Using ClamAV Antivirus
Overview
This post describes the approach of scanning files to detect trojans, viruses, malware and other malicious threats using java APIs.
Following items have been covered:
About ClamAV antivirus Instructions to install ClamAV antivirus on Linux machine Approach to scan file using ClamAV Java API to detect virus About Clam AV
ClamAV is an open source (GPL) antivirus engine designed for detecting Trojans, viruses, malware and other malicious threats. It provides a high performance mutli-threaded scanning daemon, command line utilities for on demand file scanning, and an intelligent tool for automatic signature updates.
The source code of Clam AV is written in C.
This post describes the approach of scanning files to detect trojans, viruses, malware and other malicious threats using java APIs.
Following items have been covered:
About ClamAV antivirus Instructions to install ClamAV antivirus on Linux machine Approach to scan file using ClamAV Java API to detect virus About Clam AV
ClamAV is an open source (GPL) antivirus engine designed for detecting Trojans, viruses, malware and other malicious threats. It provides a high performance mutli-threaded scanning daemon, command line utilities for on demand file scanning, and an intelligent tool for automatic signature updates.
The source code of Clam AV is written in C.