Download ClamAV 0.83

ClamAV is a GPL anti-virus program for Linux and FreeBSD. The main purpose of the software is the integration into mail servers for scanning the attachments. The package includes flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatically updating virus definitions over the Internet. Earlier this week, ClamAV got an update to version 0.83 and the changelog shows the following changes:

Changelog for 0.83

• docs: update
• clamd: change default value of StreamMaxPort to 2048
• configure: –enable-maintainer-mode
• libclamav/untar.c: do not try to continue if there’s no space on device
• clamav-milter: Up-issue to 0.83
• freshclam: add support for Foreground
• libclamav/message.c: Some files wouldn’t uudecode correctly
• clamav-milter: Added –whistlist-file and –sendmail-cf options. When in SESSION mode, not all sessions would send END
• libclamav/special.c: Only check specific RIFF files. Lots of broken software out there producing bad files.
• clamav-milter:
  • Don’t use clamd’s SESSION command
  • detect-forged-email-address
  • external: NUL terminate the string read from clamd
• contrib/clamdwatch: v0.7.1 (
• docs: update (html docs are back)
• clamd/others.c, clamdscan/client.c: AIX fix
• clamd/server-th.c: not all thrmgr_new calls were respecting idletimeout value
• libclamav/mbox.c: Some W95.Matrix.SCR were not being caught.