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ClamAV runs natively in linux. AV typically hashes files and matches them against a known database. It's not doing something that is only possible in windows


It also looks inside files complimenting my FreeBSD desktop.

PDF's for example can embed JavaScript.

Clam alerts to those with malicious payload.

I am sure there are false positives but I don't want anything embedded in my PDF's.

I use xPDF reader and feel relatively safe. It does only the bare basic.

Nevertheless I like knowing whats lurking inside my PDF's on my disk.

Deleting any PDF with embedded JS is fine with me.

For that I salute you ClamAV.


I know, I was saying you could, I suppose, run Avast or McAfee or whatever in those ways.




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