Document types supported

A wide range of document types can contain or spread viruses and ClamAV provides protection from the majority of them:

  • ELF (Executable and Linking Format) files used by UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, and OpenBSD.
  • Portable Executable (PE) files (32/64-bit) compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, WWPack32, and obfuscated with SUE, Yoda's Cryptor, and others. This is the standard format for Microsoft Windows Executables and one of the most common transports for viruses.
  • Many forms of Microsoft documents can contain scripts or executables. The following document and archive types can be processed by ClamAV:
    • MS OLE2
    • MS Cabinet files
    • MS CHM (Compressed HTML)
    • MS SZDD
    • MS Office Word and Excel documents
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