No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is clamwin.com legit or a scam?
Official 22-year-old project site for ClamWin Free Antivirus with clean scans and active Australian company registration.
Analysis Summary
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 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
The site appears to be a legitimate, albeit dated, project page for ClamWin Free Antivirus, though it is currently displaying an intrusive third-party advertisement overlay.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsLarge advertisement overlay for 'Checkmk' obscuring the main page content
Dated web design consistent with early 2000s software projects
Multiple navigation links and language selection flags present
Legitimate references to SourceForge (SF.net) and GPL open source licensing
No deceptive urgency tactics or fake security seals detected
Intelligence
The domain clamwin.com was registered in 2004 and has hosted the same open-source antivirus project for over two decades. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports. The page content matches the legitimate SourceForge project, references the ClamAV engine, and correctly discloses that it performs manual scans only. Business records confirm ClamWin Pty Ltd remains active in Australia with a listed ABN. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators surfaced in our research. The only notable visual issue is an intrusive third-party ad overlay that does not affect the legitimacy of the site itself.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for clamwin.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain clamwin.com registered 2004-05-16, age 22.1 years; hosts ClamWin Free Antivirus project page matching title/description
- Official site states: 'ClamWin Free Antivirus is a free software project' based on ClamAV engine, GPL licensed, no real-time scanner, manual/scheduled scans only
- SourceForge project page and downloads hosted at sourceforge.net/projects/clamwin/; latest release 0.103.2.1 (2021) noted on site
- ClamWin Pty Ltd (Australia) trademark holder; ABN 17 115 848 925 listed as active
- Reviews on SourceForge (4.5/5 from 151 ratings) and third-party sites note it as free/open-source on-demand scanner with good detection for known threats but outdated UI, no real-time protection, and update issues reported
- No scam reports, malware distribution claims, or complaints found on Reddit, review sites, or search results; some users discuss it for legacy Windows (XP/98) or as secondary scanner
- Site links to forums.clamwin.com, SourceForge, and ClamAV database; download from sourceforge.net; over 22 million downloads claimed
- SourceForgeopen
"ClamWin user reviews and ratings from real users , and learn the pros and cons of the ClamWin free open source software project."
- SourceForgeopen
"It really lacks of a real-time file system scanner, but it runs flawlessy on a Pentium III 500 MHz system, 96MB and Windows 98. Just amazing!!"
ClamWin Pty Ltd, ABN 17 115 848 925 active from 10 Sep 2019; trademark noted on site
Our research across scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources found no scam reports or complaints about clamwin.com. Two positive user reviews appear on SourceForge praising stability on older hardware. An active Australian company registration for ClamWin Pty Ltd further supports the project's legitimacy.
Domain Timeline
- May 16, 2004Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 22 years old today.
- Jul 9, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
clamwin.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact 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
- 1301http://clamwin.com/
- 2200https://clamwin.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
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 clamwin.com and not a lookalike like c-lamwin.com.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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Final Verdict
Clamwin.com is the official project page for ClamWin Free Antivirus, an open-source on-demand scanner. The domain is 22 years old with clean scans and an active Australian company registration. No scam reports or malicious indicators appear in our research.
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 clamwin.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- clamwin.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 88/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. clamwin.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, expiring in 86 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- clamwin.com is 22.2 years old, registered on 5/16/2004 through Hostopia Canada Corp. 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 clamwin.com as clean.
- No. clamwin.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- clamwin.com resolves to an IP operated by Oracle Corporation in AU (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 9, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around clamwin.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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