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Defences Down! ClamTk is No Longer Maintained - OMG! Ubuntu

www.omgubuntu.co.uk Defences Down! ClamTk is No Longer Maintained - OMG! Ubuntu

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

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So it's "just" the GTK gui that is iunmaintained. ClamAV and the other user interfaces for it will still be developed.
- 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?
  
  Or better yet, design a modern gui in gtk/qt.
  
  There's also a great TUI in libredefender, also written in Rust.
  
  That seems unmaintained since 2022
- It's not GTK, it's tk.
Isn't ClamTK a GUI to ClamAV if I remember correctly?
I don't know anyone who actually used clamtk
- 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
- 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.
  
  You don't need it
- I used it once back in like 2006.
You guys use antivirus on linux?
- You don't?
  
  Why would we?
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)
Hexchat too? :(
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
It is just the GUI, relax

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