Is clamav.net legit or a scam?
Official ClamAV antivirus project site — legitimate open-source software maintained by Cisco Talos with 23+ year history and zero security flags.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
MT Intelligence
ClamAV.net is the authoritative domain for an established open-source antivirus toolkit developed and maintained by Cisco Talos. The domain registration spans 8,635 days (approximately 23.6 years), aligning with the project's documented history since 2002 and Cisco's acquisition via Sourcefire in 2013. Our antivirus network flagged zero detections across 92 engines, the hosting IP carries zero abuse reports, and SSL is valid. The evidence package confirms active business registration under Cisco Systems, Inc., with the project widely packaged in Debian, Kali, openSUSE, Arch Linux, and other distributions. Wikipedia, the official GitHub repository, and Cisco Talos intelligence pages all consistently link to this domain as the canonical source. No scam reports, phishing complaints, or malicious associations appear in any search results.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for clamav.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- clamav.net is the official website for ClamAV, an open-source antivirus engine developed and maintained by Cisco Talos.
- The project has been active since 2002; acquired by Cisco via Sourcefire in 2013; current stable release referenced as 1.5.2 with downloads, documentation, and GitHub repo at github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav.
- Official documentation at docs.clamav.net; malware/false-positive reporting forms hosted on clamav.net/reports/*; used widely in Linux distributions, mail servers, and security tools.
- No scam reports, phishing complaints, or malicious associations found in searches for "clamav.net scam", "fake", or similar terms.
- Domain age of 8635 days (~23.6 years) aligns with project history; no negative Reddit threads targeting the domain itself (discussions focus on detection rates or EOL policies for older versions).
- ClamAV is frequently recommended and packaged in Debian, Kali, openSUSE, Arch Linux, and other distros; supports signature updates from db.*.clamav.net mirrors.
- Wikipediaopen
"ClamAV (Clam AntiVirus) is a free software, cross-platform antimalware toolkit able to detect many types of malware, including viruses. Website: www.clamav.net"
- GitHub Cisco-Talosopen
"ClamAV is an open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats. ... www.clamav.net/"
- Cisco Talosopen
"ClamAV - Open-Source Antivirus Software Toolkit for UNIX. ... The core of the package is an anti-virus engine..."
Maintained by Cisco Talos (Cisco Systems, Inc.); project originated in 2002, acquired by Sourcefire then Cisco in 2013
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for clamav.net and found zero scam reports or complaints. The domain is consistently cited as the official website for ClamAV across Wikipedia, the GitHub Cisco-Talos repository, and Cisco Talos Intelligence pages. Business registration confirms active status under Cisco Systems, Inc. The project has been in continuous development since 2002 and is widely used in production environments, including major Linux distributions and mail gateway systems.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://clamav.net/
- 2301http://www.clamav.net/cross-domain
- 3200https://www.clamav.net/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on clamav.net and not a lookalike like c-lamav.net.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on clamav.net. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- clamav.net passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. clamav.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Gandi SAS · GandiCert, expiring in 187 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- clamav.net is 23.7 years old, registered on 10/17/2002 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report clamav.net as clean.
- No. clamav.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- clamav.net resolves to an IP operated by Cisco Systems, Inc. in US (usage type: Commercial). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. clamav.net sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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