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
You guys use antivirus on linux?
You don’t?
Why would we?
I don’t know anyone who actually used clamtk
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.
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.
