What is Metadefender ClamWin SDK?

Metadefender ClamWin SDK provides application developers with an easy way to 
integrate ClamWin AntiVirus detection engine into their applications to perform 
real time virus scanning. Metadefender ClamWin SDK uses the native port of 
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV), which allows direct calls to libclamav.dll (without 
using clamd daemon).

Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) is an open source antivirus toolkit for UNIX 
distributed under the GPL and specifically designed to scan e-mail passing 
through e-mail gateways. A number of utilities are included into Clam AntiVirus 
(ClamAV), such as a flexible and scalable multithreaded daemon, a command line 
scanner, and advanced automatic database update tool. The core of the Clam AV 
package is an antivirus engine available as a shared library.

Including antivirus capability in your product will improve its value and 
competitiveness in turn increasing your revenue.
 
Product Benefits 

- Scan files, archives and e-mail messages. 
- Quickly integrate antivirus into your application. Easy to use and install. 
- Support for a large number of file types. 
 
Product Features 

- High performance. 
- High detection rates for viruses and spyware. 
- Directly uses libclamav.dll and doesn't require installing clamd daemon. 
- Automatic update of virus definitions. 
 
System requirements

- Windows 2000/XP/2003 operating system. 
- CPU Pentium 400 MHz or higher. 
- 128 MB RAM or more. 
- 20 MB hard drive space or more. 
- Internet access (to download virus definitions). 
 
Supported Archive types

- Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, Cab.
 
Supported File Types

- OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS. 
- built-in support for almost all mail file formats. 
- built-in support for ELF executables and Portable Executable files compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, Upack and obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor and others. 
- built-in support for popular document formats including MS Office and MacOffice files, HTML, RTF and PDF. 
 
Supported Development Tools

Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, Visual C++ 7.0 and later (unmanaged code).

Differences between the trial and the full version

- Nag-screen at application startup. 
- The size of scanning data is limited to 10 Mb. 
- a 10-second delay after scanning each file.
- The evaluation version will run for 15 days after installation. 
- The trial version cannot be used in commercial applications.  

Installation

Make sure that your computer is connected to the Internet before installing 
Metadefender so that it will be able to download latest versions of virus 
definitions. 
Launch setup.exe and choose an installation folder. After the installation 
process is over, the updater will automatically run and download the latest 
versions of virus definitions to your computer. 

Uninstalling Metadefender

To remove Metadefender from your system, do the following:
- Close all applications that use Metadefender.
- Go to Windows Control Panel/Add/Remove Programs, select Metadefender and 
  choose the Remove option.
- Confirm the deletion of all files and directories created by Metadefender.

Feedback and Support

We strive to improve the quality of our documentation, so if you have any 
comments, questions or suggestions, please contact us at support@metadefender.com. 
Your feedback is much appreciated.
