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For example, in 2009 ClamWin Free Antivirus failed to detect almost half of the trojan horses, password stealers, and other malware in AV-TEST's "zoo" of malware samples. Historically ClamWin Free Antivirus has suffered from poor detection rates and its scans have been slow and less effective than some other antivirus programs. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. The reason given is: No new effectiveness information for the past 10 years. It retries to establish connection with the server if it fails to download the updates first time. A small balloon tip appears on the taskbar icon indicating completion status of the update process. Updates ĬlamWin Free Antivirus has a virus database which is updated automatically when it detects connection to the Internet. The non-affiliated projects Clam Sentinel and Winpooch are add-ons that provide a real-time scanning capability to ClamWin. Real-time scanning ĬlamWin Free Antivirus scans on demand it does not automatically scan files as they are read and written. There are Firefox extensions that allow the users to process downloaded files with ClamWin. A portable version that can be used from a USB flash drive.Context menu integration for Windows Explorer.Automatic virus database updates on a regular basis.Scanning scheduler (only effective with user logged in).It provides a graphical user interface to the Clam AntiVirus engine. ClamWin Free Antivirus is a free and open-source antivirus tool for Windows.