Feb 8, 2005 : Hosting Zoom Installs ClamAV AntiVirus
📅 - Web hosting provider Hosting ZOOM (hostingzoom) announced on Tuesday it has upgraded security on its servers by installing ClamAV antivirus software.
All Hosting ZOOM Web hosting accounts nowinclude free spam and virus protection, defending customers againstviruses and other malicious programs transferred via email.
Clam AntiVirus is an antivirus toolkitfor UNIX that integrates with mail servers and attachment scanning. Thepackage includes a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, acommand line scanner and a tool for automatic updating via theInternet.
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