It's always sad to see a long-standing bit of open-source software put itself out to pasture (a euphemism for going way of the dodo, which is a metaphor

note: ClamAV is a separate, distinct project whose development is overseen by the Talos Group, at Cisco Systems and is not affected by this decision

  • Strit
    54•1 year ago

    So it’s “just” the GTK gui that is iunmaintained. ClamAV and the other user interfaces for it will still be developed.

    • @thingsiplay@beehaw.org
      21•1 year ago

      Yes, ClamTk is “just” a GUI for ClamAV. I wish the article would have listed a few active alternatives. For the Rust humans under us, there is curently https://github.com/ivangabriele/clamav-desktop in development, but still misses a few features. Flathub does not have any other GUI than ClamTk currently. My guess is, someone will fork current ClamTk and work on that?

      • Strit
        14•1 year ago

        Or better yet, design a modern gui in gtk/qt.

        There’s also a great TUI in libredefender, also written in Rust.

        • @thingsiplay@beehaw.org
          3•1 year ago

          Maybe one that is written in Rust with Iced toolkit? This could play well into System 76’s laptops, for people coming from Windows and expecting an Antivirus tool. I mean at least there is a commercial motivation behind it, so it might get written fast (given how fast they develop the COSMIC desktop environment).

        • Aatube
          2•1 year ago

          You can combine both widget toolkits in one app‽

    • chtk
      7•1 year ago

      I think the only TK-based tools I have ever uses are gitk and git gui. And even those I have mostly replaced with tig and lazygit

    • @Grangle1@lemm.ee
      6•1 year ago

      I used it a few times. Essentially having a one-click scan was nice, but I could never get it to properly update the virus definitions. Now I just run clamd, freshclam and clamonacc at startup. Uses a ton of RAM but then I don’t have to worry about actually doing anything beyond that.

  • Nia [She/Her]
    8•1 year ago

    Really wish they wouldn’t have clickbaited the title

    I used to use clamtk occasionally when I was first getting into linux, nice little gui that made clam way simpler to use for me at the time, when I misunderstood what clamav was meant for (email scanning on gateways, not traditional antivirus)

  • @azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    ClamAV is great tool for email servers to integrate with a message transport agent to detect Windows viruses and reject such messages before they reach users mailboxes. (Or pretend it’s accepted but don’t actually deliver) Other than that, I don’t really know if it makes sense… Maybe if binaries run directly or appimages got more common