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ClamAV commercial option available

Sourcefire, which acquired ClamAV rights back in august, announced the availability of a commercially supported version, downloadable as a binary distribution. The subscription-based version will also include two new software modules developed by Sourcefire for monitoring certain types of data.
A Free/Open Source version is still developed as a community project with updated antivirus signatures.

ClamAV acquired by Snort developer Sourcefire

Sourcefire, the company built aroung the Snort intrusion detection software, acquired ClamAV, the well know anti-virus toolkit for Unix. This acquisition will not affect the license of the project, which will stay under the GPL.

Interesting to note is that ClamAV has nearly one million unique IP addresses downloading daily updates.

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