ClamTk

ClamTk is an open source desktop application that provides users with a graphical front-end for the well known Clam AntiVirus virus scanner application that runs on Linux-based operating systems.

Getting started with ClamTk

Its user interface is divided in four sections, Configuration, History, Updates and Analysis. Each of these includes two or more entries that allow users to scan files and folders, update the virus database, etc.

Before running a virus scan against a directory or a specific file, you should update the virus signatures database using the Update function from the Updates section. In addition, you can use the Update Assistant entry to choose if you want to receive updates automatically or manually update them.

To scan a specific file or directory, you should use the “Scan a file” and “Scan a directory” entries from the Analysis section. Furthermore, the Analysis function will allow you to recheck the reputation of certain files, as well as to view or delete previous results.

The History section will allow users to view previous scan operations and the quarantined files, in case they intend to restore some of them that they think are clean. The program also provides users with a Whitelist function for adding folders and files that won’t be scanned, and a scan scheduler.

ClamTk can scan directories recursively, scan for potentially unwanted applications, scan files larger than 20MB, as well as to scan hidden files. It is one of the best GUI front-ends for the Clam AntiVirus software.

Supported OSes and availability

The application has been designed to be easy-to-use for novices who want to scan their secure Linux distributions for viruses and other malware. It offers an on-demand virus scanner that works on several Linux OSes.

It is distributed as a universal source archive, as well as specific binary files for the Debian, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Red Hat, Fedora, Mandriva, Gentoo, CentOS, ALT Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems.

What is new in this release:

• Fix to make ClamTk show up again in Dash and other areas (clamtk.desktop); the OnlyShowIn portion from 5.06 removed it
• Improve two tooltips in Settings panel
• Minor fix to wording in Update panel
• Standardize locale files permissions
• Updated language files: Arabic (ar), German (de), Azerbaijani (az), English (en_AU), Galician (gl), French (fr), Tamil (ta), Ukrainian (uk), Uzbek (uz), Finnish (fi), Romanian (ro), Spanish (es), Hebrew (he), Asturian (ast), Czech (cz), Dutch (nl), Malay (ms), Slovak (sk)

What is new in version 5.24:

• Fix to make ClamTk show up again in Dash and other areas (clamtk.desktop); the OnlyShowIn portion from 5.06 removed it
• Improve two tooltips in Settings panel
• Minor fix to wording in Update panel
• Standardize locale files permissions
• Updated language files: Arabic (ar), German (de), Azerbaijani (az), English (en_AU), Galician (gl), French (fr), Tamil (ta), Ukrainian (uk), Uzbek (uz), Finnish (fi), Romanian (ro), Spanish (es), Hebrew (he), Asturian (ast), Czech (cz), Dutch (nl), Malay (ms), Slovak (sk)

What is new in version 5.07:

• Fix to make ClamTk show up again in Dash and other areas (clamtk.desktop); the OnlyShowIn portion from 5.06 removed it
• Improve two tooltips in Settings panel
• Minor fix to wording in Update panel
• Standardize locale files permissions
• Updated language files: Arabic (ar), German (de), Azerbaijani (az), English (en_AU), Galician (gl), French (fr), Tamil (ta), Ukrainian (uk), Uzbek (uz), Finnish (fi), Romanian (ro), Spanish (es), Hebrew (he), Asturian (ast), Czech (cz), Dutch (nl), Malay (ms), Slovak (sk)

What is new in version 5.06:

• Add some extra arguments to scan to avoid scanning accidents
• Actually remove zenity from dependencies (i.e., from the build files); it was already removed from code in 5.05
• Use ShowOnlyIn in .desktop file
• Minor update for dpkg installation instructions in Help files
• Minor display fix for the progressbar in the legacy version (Google Issue #17)
• Temporary fix for incorrect text in Settings panel
• Updated language files: Japanese (ja), Italian (it), German (de), Russian (ru), English (en_GB), Slovak (sk), Chinese (zh_TW)

What is new in version 5.05:

• Preference to use single or double click in the main interface on the icons. No restart required (Google Issue #7).
• Fix Analysis FileChooserButton reset issue (again). This time, ensure it is disabled after submitting a new file.
• Minor encoding fix for Scan.pm, Quarantine.pm.
• Minor fix to use current version, not 5.00, in $ua (Analysis.pm).
• Minor regex fix in selecting directories (GUI.pm).
• Removed last remnants of Gtk2::Tooltips, which is deprecated.
• Remove zenity portion which has never been used.
• Remove non-Italian strings from Italian (it) language file.
• Standardize some words in Update.pm.
• Minor cleanup.
• Updated language files: Slovak (sk), Chinese (zh_TW), Italian (it), Dutch (nl), Bulgarian (bg), Czech (cs_CZ), Ukrainian (uk), Uzbek (uz), German (de), Finnish (fi), Asturian (ast), Galician (gl), Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt), Hebrew (he), Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR), Malay (ms)

What is new in version 5.04:

• Clear combobox text area after action (Launchpad #1276125).
• Search button active without filename and update analysis reports (Launchpad #1276141).
• Fix update problem (Google Issue #4, Launchpad #1273165).
• Updated language files: Polish (pl), German (de), Bulgarian (bg), Azerbaijani (az), Spanish (es), Uzbek (uz)

What is new in version 5.03:

• Re-add scheduler (Google Issue #1). This adds cron or cronie back as a dependency.
• Update requirement for some distros to gnome-icon-theme-full, and gnome-icon-theme for some distros (Google Issue #2); for Fedora, it seems we need gnome-icon-theme-legacy. Depends on the distro.
• Remove extra gettext subs
• Fix ugly copyright symbol
• Update year in multiple places, 2013 -> 2014
• Minor help documentation and man page tweaks.
• Updated language files: Slovak (sk), Punjabi (pa), Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR), Finnish (fi), Polish (pl), Ukrainian (uk), Malay (ms), Spanish (es), Chinese (zh_CN), Bulgarian (bg), Czech (cs), Asturian (ast), Galician (gl), Latvian (lv), Serbian Latin (sr@latin), Dutch (nl), English (en_UK), Indonesian (id), Marathi (mr), Hebrew (he)

What is new in version 5.02:

• Add gnome-icon-theme to requirements (mostly affects KDE-based systems like Kubuntu; it's pretty standard with most distros)
• Update statusbar after saving update preferences
• Add missing icon in Nautilus context menu
• Remove unused (notify-send and more) code from App.pm
• Ensure FileChooserButton cannot be clicked with nothing (due to inability to reset)
• Remove deprecated encoding pragma.
• Updated language files: Bulgarian (bg), Czech (cs), Slovak (sk), Chinese (zh_CN), Irish (ga)

What is new in version 5.01:

• Fix minimum Gtk2 version to >= 1.241
• Fix parsing issue on paths with spaces and special characters
• Update VT file size limit
• Correct quarantine sorting from lexical to spaceship operator (numerically ascending)
• Allow quarantine scrollwindow to actually scroll
• Results columns are now resizable
• Updated language files: English (en_CA), Finnish (fi), Spanish (es), Greek (el_GR), Chinese (zh_CN), Azerbaijani (az), Uyghur (ug), Dutch (nl)

What is new in version 5.00:

• Right-click file manager support; uses nautilus-python
• Use of Virustotal API; requires perl-JSON and perl-LWP-Protocol-https
• Now using Time::Piece instead of Date::Calc; it's a Perl built-in
• Now using Digest::SHA (sha256) instead of Digest::MD5
• Built-in documentation (requires yelp); currently English only...
• Updated language files: German (de), Bulgarian (bg), Galician (gl), Ukrainian (uk), Russian (ru), English (en_UK), Malay (ms), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Dutch (nl), Asturian (ast), Uzbek (uz), Chinese (zh_TW), Finnish (fi), Spanish (es), Croatian (hr), Marathi (mr), Chinese (zh_CN), Slovak (sk), Indonesian (id), Latvian (lv), Azerbaijani (az)

What is new in version 4.45:

• Fixed and improved submit file for analysis functionality. Thanks to those who reported the bug and tested the fix!
• Updated date information (2012 -> 2013).
• Updated Asturian (ast) language file. Thanks, Xuacu!
• Updated Bulgarian (bg) language file. Thanks, Atanas!
• Updated Croatian (hr) language file. Thanks, freedomrun!
• Updated Danish (da_DK) language file. Thanks, Ask!
• Updated Finnish (fi) language file. Thanks, Jiri!
• Updated Lithuanian (lt) language file. Thanks, Mantas!
• Updated Polish (pl) language file. Thanks, Mike!
• Updated Spanish (es) language file. Thanks, evanjt!
• Updated Thai (th) language file. Thanks, Kantinan!

Requirements:

• Clam AntiVirus