luca at clamav
Apr 29, 2005, 11:16 AM
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Dear ClamAV users,
release 0.84 is available for download.
This version improves detection of JPEG (MS04-028) based exploits, introduces
support for TNEF files and new detection mechanisms. Various bugfixes
(including problems with scanning of digest mail files) and improvements
have been made.
** We encourage users to help testing the development versions, now with **
** rewritten RAR code and support for 3.0 archives! **
** http://www.clamav.net/snapshot/ **
The ChangeLog includes:
-) libclamav:
+ JPEG exploit detector now also checks embedded Photoshop thumbnail images
+ archive meta-data scanner (improves malware detection within encrypted
archives)
+ support for TNEF (winmail.dat) decoding
+ support for all tar archive formats
+ MD5 implementation replaced with a slightly faster one
+ improved database reloading with reference counter
+ database updateable false positive eliminator
+ speed improvements
+ various bugfixes
-) clamd:
+ VirusEvent now sets CLAM_VIRUSEVENT_FILENAME and CLAM_VIRUSEVENT_VIRUSNAME
environment variables
-) clamav-milter:
+ improved database update detection when not --external
-) clamscan:
+ new options --include-dir and exclude-dir
+ new option --max-dir-recursion
-) freshclam:
+ new directive LocalIPAddress
-) contrib:
+ clamdmon 1.0 - clamdwatch replacement written in C
-) 3rd party software:
+ hMailServer - open source e-mail server for Microsoft Window
+ pop3.proxy - proxy server for the POP3 protocol
+ HTTP Anti Virus Proxy
+ SmarterMail Filter - ClamAV based plugin for SmarterMail Mail Server
+ smf-clamd - small & fast virus filter for Sendmail
+ Squidclam - replacement for SquidClamAV-Redirector.py written in C
+ QtClamAVclient - remote clamd client based on the Qt Toolkit
+ qpsmtp - flexible smtpd daemon written in Perl
News:
Palo Alto, Calif. March 31st 2005 - Clam AntiVirus, the leading Open Source
antivirus toolkit, and Sensory Networks, the leading provider of hardware
acceleration for network security applications, announced a partnership
to provide hardware acceleration support for the Clam AntiVirus suite.
[...]
Support for Sensory Networks' NodalCore acceleration in ClamAV will be
available in version 0.90 of the software suite in Q3 2005. For more
information please visit:
http://www.clamav.net/partners/partner-sn.html
http://www.sensorynetworks.com/
The ClamAV project announces the opening of the official merchandise store:
http://www.cafepress.com/clamav/
A big thank you to Finndesign (http://www.finndesign.fi) which
volunteered to design the whole line of products, including:
- t-shirts (for women and men)
- golf shirt
- sweatshirt
- coffee mug
- mousepad
- stickers
- scrapbook
By purchasing our merchandise, you contribute to the development of ClamAV.
--
The ClamAV team (http://www.clamav.net/team.html)
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Luca Gibelli (luca at clamav.net) - ClamAV, a GPL virus scanner
PGP Key Fingerprint: C782 121E 8C3A 90E3 7A87 D802 6277 8FF4 5EFC 5582
PGP Key Available on: Key Servers || http://www.clamav.net/gpg/luca.gpg
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