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ClamAV DoJoSec Talk Addendum

Summary: In a follow-up to a DoJoSec talk, Cisco Talos clarified that ClamAV supports Linux, Solaris, BSD, and OS X, with third-party packages for some of those systems and source builds available for others or for the latest release. The post also states that ClamAV is not a desktop AV and is aimed at the server market, where it can scan incoming mail, NFS shares, and Windows machines over SMB shares, and that it can be deployed on Windows through an emulation layer such as Cygwin.

What you should know: ClamAV is positioned for servers, not desktops, so an organization relying on it for endpoint protection is using it outside its intended scope - the post points to scanning mail, NFS shares, and Windows boxes over SMB from the server instead.

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