ClamAV comes to Windows

The open source ClamAV project is coming to the Windows desktop with cloud-based security concepts, reports eSecurity Planet.

Sourcefire, the commercial sponsor behind the ClamAV anti-virus project, says it's releasing ClamAV for Windows, after partnering with security vendor Immunet. =

"One of the things ClamAV has never really done a whole lot of was actual desktop installs," says Matt Watchinski, senior director of Sourcefire's vulnerability research team. "A lot of people use ClamAV for their mail gateways and we wanted to bring that brand and experience to the Windows desktop market."

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom has released a unified open source standard to enable local government to connect its 311 system to social networking sites Twitter and Facebook, reports Gov Tech.

The Open311 application programming interface project combined the efforts of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle and numerous other cities, which will all have access to the Open311.

"We've come up with all of those rules and standards and we're giving it away for free," says Chris Vein, CIO of San Francisco. "If somebody in another city wants to use this, they can take it and their programmers don't have to spend months going through the protocols and figuring out how to make it interoperable."

Zenoss has unveiled its Zenoss Core 2.5.2 under the GNU General Public Licence, according to PR Web.

The release offers monitoring capabilities for the Xen Hypervisor via the Zenoss Xen monitoring plug-in, or Xen Virtual Hosts ZenPack. The Xen Virtual Hosts ZenPack discovers guests on Xen para-virtualised hosts and provides monitoring of performance and availability via SSH.

ZenPack allows administrators to find the associated hosts and guests and monitor their Xen virtual infrastructure along side their entire physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT environment through a single interface.