> Dear ClamAV Users, > > This year, ClamAV celebrates its 10th anniversary. The first release > was > on May 8, 2002, and included the basic command line scanner "clamscan" > and database update tool "freshclam". With your help, the project that > started as a hobby has become a complete antivirus solution and one of > the most popular Open Source security tools. Today, ClamAV has more > than > 2 million active installations and scans hundreds of millions of files > every day. > > We are incredibly proud of this project and of the development work we > have been able to do since joining Sourcefire via acquisition in 2007. > We've had the opportunity to build out the bytecode engine and logical > signatures, and implement dozens of other major improvements that make > ClamAV a powerful tool. > > While we are incredibly proud of this, it is time for us to make a > change. ClamAV is now mature software and we are confident that > Sourcefire will successfully continue its development, move it forward > and maintain the integrity of its infrastructure. Matt Watchinski, who > has headed Sourcefire's Vulnerability Research Team (VRTT) for 10 > years, > will continue to lead this project. Joel Esler, the company's Open > Source community manager, will also be your main point of contact and > advocate. > > We cannot fully express how grateful we are to all of the people, > organizations and companies that have supported us and who will > continue > to support the project. This includes all the individuals who have > contributed virus signatures and the developers who have contributed > code to ClamAV throughout the years, the public mirrors that host our > virus databases worldwide, the entities that hosted our web site, > nameservers and build farm; the developers and package maintainers who > have integrated ClamAV into various Open Source products and > distributions and, of course, the Open Source community as a whole. > > Finally, we would like to thank all who have trusted ClamAV for > scanning > and protecting some of the most valuable data on their networks. > > Sincerely, > > Tomasz Kojm <tomasz.k...@gmail.com> (twitter: @tkojm) > Luca Gibelli <l...@gibelli.it> (twitter: @nervous) > Alberto Wu <a...@digitalfuture.it> > Edwin Török <ed...@etorok.net>
Congratulations on your 10 year anniversary, and thanks for making the product as good as it is now! Good luck with anything you start working on! -- Rob _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
