Defences Down! ClamTk is No Longer Maintained - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

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note: ClamAV is a separate, distinct project whose development is overseen by the Talos Group, at Cisco Systems and is not affected by this decision

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You guys use antivirus on linux?

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

You don't?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Why would we?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I don't know anyone who actually used clamtk

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

I used it a few times. Essentially having a one-click scan was nice, but I could never get it to properly update the virus definitions. Now I just run clamd, freshclam and clamonacc at startup. Uses a ton of RAM but then I don't have to worry about actually doing anything beyond that.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

So it's "just" the GTK gui that is iunmaintained. ClamAV and the other user interfaces for it will still be developed.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, ClamTk is "just" a GUI for ClamAV. I wish the article would have listed a few active alternatives. For the Rust humans under us, there is curently https://github.com/ivangabriele/clamav-desktop in development, but still misses a few features. Flathub does not have any other GUI than ClamTk currently. My guess is, someone will fork current ClamTk and work on that?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Or better yet, design a modern gui in gtk/qt.

There's also a great TUI in libredefender, also written in Rust.

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