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Top 6 anti-virus Open-Source Projects

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  1. hosts

    🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

    Project mention: Digital Hygiene | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-19

    Why use NextDNS when you can use a lightweight, native solution[1]? Sorry if this sounds condescending but I need less services and not more.

    [1]: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. signature-base

    YARA signature and IOC database for my scanners and tools

  4. BLUESPAWN

    An Active Defense and EDR software to empower Blue Teams

  5. phpMussel

    PHP-based anti-virus anti-trojan anti-malware solution.

  6. MCAntiMalware

    Anti-Malware for minecraft

    Project mention: broom VS MCAntiMalware - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/berrybyte-net/broom | 2024-10-04

    Detects more variants of malware.

  7. UTMFW

    UTM Firewall on OpenBSD

    Project mention: OpenBSD Innovations | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-22

    It does the job great with the default install as long as you're comfortable with the console but if you're talking something with a web interface like what pfsense/opnsense on freebsd, there was one out of Sweden I think it was for a while that fizzled out called securityrouter. Nowadays these are what I've seen (But not tested):

    https://github.com/sonertari/PFFW

    https://github.com/sonertari/UTMFW

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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  • Digital Hygiene

    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Mar 2025

  • Ask HN: What are you replacing uBlock Origin with?

    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2024

  • Chrome Is Entrenching Third-Party Cookies That Will Mislead Users

    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2024

  • Please help with plugins...

    1 project | /r/admincraft | 4 Feb 2023

  • Plugins timing out when loading

    1 project | /r/admincraft | 29 Oct 2022

  • Any way to know 100% if plugin is safe before installing?

    1 project | /r/admincraft | 30 Sep 2022
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What are some of the best open-source anti-virus projects? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 hosts 28,077
2 signature-base 2,614
3 BLUESPAWN 1,274
4 phpMussel 424
5 MCAntiMalware 302
6 UTMFW 159

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