ClamWin Free Antivirus Changelog

What's new in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.103.2.1

Jun 7, 2021
  • Fixed Virus database updates
  • ClamAV engine updated to version 0.103.2r1

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.99 (Jan 17, 2016)

  • This release updates ClamAV scanning engine to the latest version and brings important improvements:
  • Heuristic detection improvements
  • Improvements in detection and processing of archived files
  • Other important bug fixes

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.98.7 (May 16, 2015)

  • Brings important improvements:
  • PDF processing improvements
  • Improvements in detection and processing of packed executables
  • Improved handling of iso9660 files
  • Other important bug fixes

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.98.6 (Mar 2, 2015)

  • Bug fixes in detection of files produced by upx, upack and mew packagers
  • Other bug fixes and feature improvements

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.98.5 (Dec 8, 2014)

  • This release updates ClamAV scanning engine to the latest version and brings following improvements:
  • Support for the XDP file format including embedded PDF files
  • Improved detection of malicious PE files
  • Other bug fixes and feature improvements

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.98.4.1 (Aug 11, 2014)

  • This release updates ClamAV scanning engine to the latest version and brings following improvements:
  • Added support for Office Open XML files
  • Fixed a bug in Outlook scanning module introduced in 0.98.4 release
  • Other bug fixes and stability improvements

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.98.4 (Aug 4, 2014)

  • This release updates ClamAV scanning engine to the latest version and brings following improvements:
  • Added support for Office Open XML files
  • Bug fixes and stability improvements

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.98.1 (Feb 3, 2014)

  • This release brings a number of updates to ClamAV scanning engine:
  • Support for new file formats and archives: DMG, XAR, Xz
  • Improvements in scanning of Microsoft OLE files
  • Various other improvements

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.98 (Oct 26, 2013)

  • New virus signature targets enable detection of PDF, Flash, and Java class files
  • New filetypes supported in the scanner include ISO9660, Flash and 7-zip self-extracting archives
  • Performance and memory management improvements

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.97.6 (Oct 6, 2012)

  • Scanning code optimizations

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.97.5 (Jul 6, 2012)

  • Improved bytecode signature loading
  • Improved handling of tar archives and chm files
  • Various performance improvements

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.97.4 (Apr 3, 2012)

  • This maintenance release updates ClamAV scanning engine and brings the following improvements:
  • Improved Macrovirus detection
  • Various performance improvements

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.97.3 (Nov 1, 2011)

  • Improved bytecode signature matching
  • Other bugfixes and improvements

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.97.2 (Nov 1, 2011)

  • fixed problems with the bytecode engine
  • Improved hash matching
  • Other bugfixes and improvements

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.97.1 (Jun 16, 2011)

  • Better detection for encrypted PDF documents
  • Improved handling of bytecode signatures
  • Other bugfixes and improvements

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.97 (Feb 17, 2011)

  • Quarantine Browser with an option to restore quarantined files
  • Digital signature verification method to minimize false positive detections
  • Other bugfixes and improvements

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.96.5 (Feb 17, 2011)

  • Improved byte code signature loading
  • Fixed detection of embedded executables
  • Other bugfixes

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.96.4 (Nov 20, 2010)

  • This release updates ClamAV scanning engine and fixes a few important issues:
  • Fixed an issue with false positive detection
  • Improvements in signature database loading time

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.96.2.1 (Aug 23, 2010)

  • Faster database loading time
  • Improvements in false positive elimination
  • Improvements in bytecode scanning

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.96.2 (Aug 18, 2010)

  • Faster database loading time
  • Improvements in false positive elimination
  • Improvements in bytecode scanning

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.96.1 (May 25, 2010)

  • Better and faster loading of the virus signature database
  • Improvements in 7zip archive scanning
  • Improvements in bytecode signatures

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.96 (Apr 13, 2010)

  • Bytecode detection signatures allow more complex patterns and better detection
  • Heuristics improvements
  • Digital Signature verification prevents false positive detection for Windows system files
  • Other scanning enhancements

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.95.3 (Nov 10, 2009)

  • Improved virus signature handling
  • Improved scanning speed of large executables
  • Fixed detection of encrypted zip files embedded into other files
  • Improved loading speed of compressed virus signature databases
  • Other scanning enhancements

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.95.2 (Jun 12, 2009)

  • Updated ClamAV escanning ngine to 0.95.2

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.95.1 (Apr 14, 2009)

  • Better ZIP archive handling
  • fixed possible false positive detection
  • A lot of other bug fixes fixes and improvements

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.93.1 (Jun 14, 2008)

  • updated clamav engine to 0.93.1 - added "Show splash screen" option for MS Outlook plugin

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.93 (Apr 22, 2008)

  • Considerably faster scanning speed
  • More intelligent database updates with online connection status checking
  • Improved archived files handling.

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.93 (Apr 21, 2008)

  • Considerably faster scanning speed
  • More intelligent database updates with online connection status checking
  • Improved archived files handling

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.88.7 (Jan 22, 2007)

  • Bugfixes and enhancements in ClamAV email scanning
  • Fixed problems with certain temporary file names

New in ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.88.5 (Oct 18, 2006)

  • New "Memory Scanning" functionality available as a standalone option or during a scheduled scan
  • ClamWin now supports additional archive formats: RAR v3 and 7-Zip LZMA method
  • Several improvements in scanning of Microsoft Office Attachments, MSI and CAB files