ClamWin Portable

[Checker]

[Mod note: the present is the official forum topic for ClamWin Portable; http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=601]

New Version: 0.92
http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/clamwin_portable

[Midas]

Old topic update: for lack of a better option, the present is now the official forum topic for ClamWin Portable (http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=601).

ClamWin Portable is the popular ClamWin antivirus packaged as a portable app, so you can take your antivirus with you to scan files on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 8/7/Vista/XP/Me/2000/98 and Windows Server 2012, 2008 and 2003. ClamWin Free Antivirus is used by more than 600,000 users worldwide on a daily basis. It comes with an easy installer and open source code. [...] Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware. ClamWin Free Antivirus is based on ClamAV engine and uses GNU General Public License by the Free Software Foundation, and is free (as in freedom) software.

ClamAV is an open source (GPL) anti-virus engine used in a variety of situations including email scanning, web scanning, and end point security. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and an advanced tool for automatic database updates.

[Midas]

ClamWin Portable v0.98.7 is released (stale changelog at https://portableapps.com/support/clamwi ... on_history; upstream ClamWin changelog is at http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/246/1/).

[SYSTEM]

ClamWin Portable v0.98.7 is released (stale changelog at http://portableapps.com/support/clamwin ... on_history; upstream ClamWin changelog is at http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/246/1/).

Am I missing something? ClamWin Portable 0.98.7 was released back in May 17 and our database entry is up to date.

[Midas]

Upstream ClamWin v0.99 released (changelog is at http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/247/1/).

[Midas]

Upstream ClamWin v0.99.4 released, dated 2018-03-15 (changelog is at http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/249/1/).

Downloads for this release are at https://sourceforge.net/projects/clamwi ... in/0.99.4/.

FYI, I'll copy here a comment I posted a while ago in the database entry:

Please note that, for updating purposes, you needn't download the full 100MB+ ClamWin package.

Just go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamwin/files/clamwin/, find the latest version folder and download the 'clamwin-0.9x.x-setup-nodb.exe', which is only about 8MB -- after (Uni)extracting, you'll find all the files you need for updating in the '{app}\bin' folder...

Please note that in my experience the 'clamwin-update-0.9x.x-0.9x.x.exe' file also present therein is nothing more than an online updater for the installed version of ClamWin.

[Midas]

Upstream ClamAV v100.1 released (changelog at blog.clamav.net /2018/07/clamav-01001-has-been-released.html).

The upstream official ClamAV webpage has (allegedly portable) 32 and 64-bit Windows builds available for download at http://www.clamav.net/downloads#otherversions (untested!).

[Midas]

Due to the availability of working Windows binaries from the official ClamAV project webpage (see http://www.clamav.net/downloads#otherversions), some of them even represented as "portable" (untested!), I move for changing the ClamWin entry, which hasn't been updated in a long time, to ClamAV.

Any nay-sayers?

[JohnTHaller]

Due to the availability of working Windows binaries from the official ClamAV project webpage (see http://www.clamav.net/downloads#otherversions), some of them even represented as "portable" (untested!), I move for changing the ClamWin entry, which hasn't been updated in a long time, to ClamAV.

Any nay-sayers?

I think ClamAV is command line only in its Windows builds, unless it's changed.

EDIT: I just checked and it's command line only.

[Midas]

I see. Not that ClamWin doesn't resort to running commands in the CLI console, but in respect to site rules (as well as my own personal preference) GUI programs have preference here at TPFC. Motion withdrawn, then.

Do you happen to know why the ClamWin version is lagging behind?

[Midas]

Topic update: while ClamWin is still at v0.99.4, last released in 2018-03-15 (see www.clamwin.com/content/blogcategory/20/100/), upstream ClamAV is now v0.102.4 released 2020-07-16 (announcement at blog.clamav.net/2020/07/clamav-01024-security-patch-released.html).

ClamAV supplies both 32 and 64-bit native Windows executables along with portable setup instructions (untested!):

• www.clamav.net /documents/installing-clamav-on-windows

Incidentally, Netfarm OSS also provides a "ClamAV Antivirus Native Win32 Port", currently at v0.102.1 released November 2019-11-27:

• oss.netfarm.it/clamav/

[Midas]

Topic update: ClamWin Portable v0.103.2 released 2021-05-04 (upstream ClamWin changelog at https://clamwin.com/content/view/251/1/).

ClamWin portability info at https://clamwin.com/content/view/118/89/.

To anyone running the previous v0.99.4, ClamWin updated files are listed below -- as noted above, it's enough to update those to keep the program updated, which can be done by downloading 'clamwin-0.103.2-setup-nodb.exe' and (Uni)extracting.

Code: Select all

Folder 'bin':
clamscan.exe
ClamTray.exe
ClamWin.exe
freshclam.exe
libclamav.dll
libclamav_llvm.dll
libclamunrar.dll
libclamunrar_iface.dll
libfreshclam.dll
OlAddin.exe
sigtool.exe
unicows.dll
WClose.exe

Folder 'lib':
clamwin.zip