What is CompactbyteAV (CAV)?

This product has been discontinued. Please use other antivirus program.

This is an antivirus for local Indonesian viruses/worms. It is not meant to replace existing antivirus products. Most Indonesian viruses/worms spreads through USB disk at small Internet Cafes, and not through network/Internet, so if you live outside Indonesia it is a bit unlikely you will get these viruses/worms. Most of the local Indonesian virus are not detected by Commercial AV for weeks or event months. It seems that there are no incentive for the AV companies to prioritize these viruses, since Indonesia is known to be the one largest Intellectual Property Violators (in other words, there are very few Indonesian customers).

You should check your computer using the latest update of your antivirus software, before trying this program.

Download
Latest CAV: cav-0.94.exe
Cav with additional DLL (unrar.dll): cav-0.94-package.zip
Source code: cav-0.94.tar.bz2
Release date: 6 Maret 2007
MD5 for binary/exe:5e0a2d9405fe3b2ac13ab7ed1141063f
Number of viruses/worms: 172 (click here to view the virus list).

Before Running CAV
Please follow instructions properly:

Close All Running Applications. CAV may close your application if the binary file is compressed or written using Visual Basic. Only few common applications that has their executable compressed, but most Indonesian viruses are compresses,or written in Visual Basic. Application that got suddenly killed by CAV may cause you to lose your work.
If you have antivirus programs, try running those first with the latest updates. Most viruses are not recognized by CAV but recognized by other AV.
If you intend to scan all kind of RAR files, download the version with UNRAR.DLL (cav-xx-package.zip). Without the DLL, CAV can only scan old RAR files (up to version 2.0).

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Why CAV?

Small
- Fits into USB or even floppy.
- Easy to download on a slow connection (useful in on slow internet cafes in Indonesia).
- Will not cost you a lot of money if you download this program using volume based charging connection (most connection trough Indonesia's GSM Networks are charged by data volume).
- Has a small memory footprint.
No install necessary.
One program for many viruses.
Opensource with GPL license.

System Requirements

Any computer that can run these following 32 bit Windows OS:

Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista

Special note: CAV is only tested on Windows XP.

Documentation

Help Me

Adding program features
Reporting bug(s) you found
Adding new virus signatures
Sending virus samples
Creating mirror (preferably in Indonesia)

Credits
I thank these following parties:

Risnawaty for documentation and initial testing.
Virus sample senders.
Openclipart for icon and pictures on this site.