Next: Mailing lists Up: Introduction Previous: Introduction Contents

## Features

- Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2
- POSIX compliant, portable
- Fast scanning
- Supports on-access scanning (Linux and FreeBSD only)
- Detects over 30000 viruses, worms, and trojans, including Microsoft Office and MacOffice macro viruses
- Scans within archives and compressed files (also protects against archive bombs), built-in support includes:
  - Zip
  - RAR (2.0)
  - Tar
  - Gzip
  - Bzip2
  - MS OLE2
  - MS Cabinet Files
  - MS CHM (Compiled HTML)
  - MS SZDD compression format
- Supports Portable Executable files compressed with:
  - UPX
  - FSG
  - Petite
- Powerful mail scanner
- Advanced database updater with support for digital signatures and DNS based database version queries