clamav

Install command:
brew install clamav

Anti-virus software

https://www.clamav.net/

License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/clamav.json

Formula code: clamav.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 1.5.4
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

json-c 0.19 JSON parser for C
openssl@3 3.6.4 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
pcre2 10.48 Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API
yara 4.5.8 Malware identification and classification tool

Depends on when building from source:

cmake 4.4.3 Cross-platform make
pkgconf 3.0.7 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
rust 1.98.1 Safe, concurrent, practical language

Uses from macOS: bzip2, curl, libxml2, ncurses

Binaries: clamav-config, clambc, clamconf, clamd, clamdscan, clamdtop, clamonacc, clamscan, clamsubmit, freshclam, sigtool

Service:

Start now and at startup: sudo brew services start clamav
Run directly: $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/clamav/sbin/clamd --foreground
To finish installation & run clamav you will need to edit
the example conf files at $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/clamav/

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