Sourcefire and the ClamAV core team are committed to improving the quality of ClamAV, but we need your help. You can play a critical role in the ClamAV project by participating in the release candidate (RC) process.

While there have been many downloads of the RC version for 0.93, feedback and bug reports on the RC release were few and far between. As you are aware, very shortly after the release of 0.93 a number of bugs were discovered and reported. We believe that most of these bugs would have been discovered earlier with a more rigorous RC process.

With that in mind, we have written a questionnaire that we are asking you all to take part in. This questionnaire should take no more than 5 minutes of your time and it would be a tremendous help to the ClamAV development team. Greater participation in the RC process will help us to discover and fix bugs earlier, avoid unnecessary patch releases and add new features faster.

The questionnaire is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=50jD3TV0RLtgwzPAPP4kYg_3d_3d.
You may answer anonymously or, if you choose, you may include your contact information so that I may contact you to further discuss how to improve the RC process. Any contact information provided will be used only for this purpose and will not be shared with any organisation other than the ClamAV team.

Just to say thank you, everyone who completes the survey and provides their contact information will have a chance to win one of three US$50 shopping sprees at: http://www.cafepress.com/clamav. The draw will take place on 21st May 2008.

Thank you agreeing to fill in this questionnaire. Should you have any questions please feel free to email me at nigel dot horne at sourcefire dot com, or phone me on +44 1226 241048 (UK time).

Nigel Horne

Director ClamAV Product Management

Sourcefire, Inc.

SANS Technology Institute just published an interview with ClamAV project founder Tomasz Kojm.
The interview gives the reader an insight on the origin of the project, the vision that leads its development and the current situation in the malware arena.
A recommended read!

The number of samples processed, reviewed and published by our sigmaker team today reached one million. This is a great achievement for ClamAV and a sign of how our malware detection rate has greatly improved during the years.

Sourcefire has expanded eligibility for the $10,000 Snort Scholarship Program to include ClamAV users. If you’d like more information or to apply visit: http://www.sourcefire.com/products/snort/scholarship

Sourcefire is pleased to introduce a commercial support service for ClamAV. This new service is designed to satisfy the needs of businesses and government agencies that require commercial support be available for open source products in production environments.

Read the press release.

For more information on Certified ClamAV support visit: http://www.sourcefire.com/products/clamav/support