Metadefender

Metadefender is an SDK, which allows integration of various antivirus engines into applications for real time scanning. Metadefender is not an end-user application but the library for software developers. Using Metadefender, you can integrate antivirus engines from Avast!, ClamAV, Quick Heal and VirusBuster EDK into your application. No antivirus can detect threats with 100% guarantee. Metadefender, which unites several different antivirus engines increases probability of successfully detecting malware.

Different antivirus scanners (Avast!, ClamAV, Quick Heal and VirusBuster) used in Metadefender allow the software to get virus signatures, which are important for detecting the newest viruses, considerably faster. So the risk for the system to get infected by some new virus is dramatically reduced. Actually, not a single antivirus software product can be the first to detect new viruses ALL THE TIME. There are a lot of reasons why different companies respond to each new virus attack with different delays. Having quite a few of antivirus engines bundled together takes your chances of detecting a new threat by at least one of them to a new level. Moreover, even if you have all your virus databases updated, differences in virus detection methods used by different engines increase the possibility that one of these methods will be good at detecting a new variation of some malware. To sum it up, using as many available antivirus engines as possible makes your computer system as protected as never before.

Metadefender has an annually distributed license. The price of the license depends on the number of end-users operating the antivirus engines.
Metadefender includes annual licenses for the built-in Avast! and VirusBuster engines, and also supports preset ClamAV and Quick Heal antivirus engines.
An update of the virus bases of engines included in a distribution kit is executed automatically by the engine developer’s website during the one-year license period. The virus bases update of preset engines is carried out according to the engine developer license.

• Avast!
• ClamAV
• VirusBuster EDK

• Use several antivirus engines simultaneously.
• Scan files, archives and e-mail messages.
• Quickly integrate antivirus into your application. Easy to use and install.
• The same API for all used antivirus engines.
• Support for a large number of file types.

• High performance.
• Infected files can be cured instead of being deleted.
• Infected or suspicious files are isolated in the quarantine zone.
• High detection rates for viruses and spyware.
• Automatic update of virus definitions multiple times per day.

• Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista operating system.
• CPU Pentium 133 or higher.
• 64 MB RAM (recommended 128 MB).
• 50 MB hard drive space or more.
• Internet access (to download virus definitions).

• Ace, Arj, Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, Cab, Iso.

• OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS.
• built-in support for almost all mail file formats.
• built-in support for ELF executables and Portable Executable files compressed with Aspack, UPX, FSG, Pecompat, Petite, tnef, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, Upack and obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor and others.
• built-in support for popular document formats including MS Office and MacOffice files, HTML, RTF and PDF.

• Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Visual C# or any other programming language.