Tool comparison of Malware scanners
Finding the right tool for the job can be difficult task. This sheet compares ClamAV, LMD, Rootkit Hunter, and chkrootkit.
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| Description | ClamAV is an open source antivirus engine. It can detect malicious software (malware) like trojans, viruses, backdoors and other related threats. | Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a malware scanner for systems running Linux. The open source software project is released with the GPLv2 license. | Security tool to search for traces of rootkits, backdoors, and other malicious components on systems running Linux and other flavors of Unix | chkrootkit is a malware scanner to locally check for signs of a rootkit. It is written in shell script and runs on the host system itself. |
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| Programming language(s) | C | Shell script | Shell script | C, Shell script |
| Last release | clamav-1.4.1 (2024-09-03) | 1.6.5 (2023-03-30) | 1.4.4 (2017-06-29) | 0.52 (2017-03-15) |
| Tool page (last updated) | 2024-09-05 | 2024-03-24 | 2021-05-08 | 2021-05-08 |
| Tool score | 100 | 74 | 59 | 59 |
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