ClamAV/Clamwin Scores High in Adoption by Big Corporation
As to date, the following business/academic entities uses Clamwin/ClamAV in their production environment:
State of Vermont
Vermont State government (U.S.) uses ClamAV on its frontend email hubs, which handle several hundred domains and scan approximately 250000 messages each day.
Michigan State University
Our central email system serves over 120000 users with a cluster of 30 boxes. ClamAV scans over two million email messages a day, which translates to about 46 GB of traffic. That’s a lot of zeroes. Our users thank you!
Barracuda Networks
Barracuda Networks’ Levow sees considerable merit in the use of opensource antivirus and antispam tools, and [[specifically [barracudanews]] points to ClamAV as the largest and also most widely used opensource antivirus technology: ‘’With a well-built team of contributors helping improve the accuracy and virus definitions as they enter the digital age, ClamAV is a highly respected and very accurate antivirus engine’’ said Levov.
Webmail.us
Webmail.us specializes in providing small businesses with company-wide email hosting services. All solutions are protected by ClamAV, which runs on 16 Athlon 3200 servers with Red Hat Linux ES 3.0, protecting 15.000 businesses, and ~10 million messages per day (as of January 2006). New virus definitions are pushed to all servers in real-time as updates are released by ClamAV.
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