Overview

This post describes the approach of scanning files to detect trojans, viruses, malware and other malicious threats using java APIs.

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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.
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