Release 4.60.1

Res res at ausics.net
Sat May 19 12:20:09 UTC 2007


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Having a manual run on installing, shows there is a lot of these that were 
higher versions..

On Sat, 19 May 2007, 
Res wrote:

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> Hrmmmmm, I have DBI 1.56 installed but MS has decided to install 1.50 ?
> Mailtools 1.71 but yet we have (had) 1.77
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> (and thats just the 2 I noticed)
>
> Jules is there a better way to detect and install perl modules rather than 
> the current way which seems to downgrade what we already have installed?
> This is with the tarball version.
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> On Sat, 19 May 2007, Julian Field wrote:
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>> I have just released the first beta version of 4.60.
>> 
>> - -- Fixed problem causing a few false alarms in RBLs.
>> - -- Custom Functions now take parameters to their per-message invocation
>> as well as to the Init and End functions.
>> - -- "clamavmodule" scanner no longer detects password-protected archives
>> as viruses, allowing them to be easily released in MailWatch.
>> - -- Phishing net now correctly handles HTML tags inside links.
>> 
>> Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
>> 
>> Please do help me by testing this release!
>> Many thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> The full Change Log is this:
>> 
>> * New Features and Improvements *
>> 1 Improved Sophos.install script so that it sets up /etc/ld.so.conf
>> ready for
>>  installation of Perl-SAVI module required for "sophossavi" virus scanner.
>> 1 Custom Functions can now receive parameters not only to their Init and 
>> End
>>  functions, but also to their run-time calculation functions (i.e. the real
>>  custom function itself used when processing each message). The Custom
>>  Function is now passed not only the message, but also a ref to a list of
>>  parameters specified in the MailScanner.conf file.
>> 1 Improvement to phishing net.
>> 1 'clamavmodule' scanner no longer detects encrypted zips/rars as viruses,
>>  leaving MailScanner to do the check later in the dangerous content
>> scanning.
>>  The consequence is that MailWatch will allow them to be released from
>>  quarantine.
>> 
>> * Fixes *
>> 1 Phishing net now correctly handles HTML tags inside links.
>> 1 Deprecated clamscan flag replaced with supported one to stop it printing
>>  the summary.
>> 1 Added '-b' to nod32-1.99 command-line options in SweepViruses.pm to stop
>>  scanner producing licensing details. Thanks to UxBoD.
>> 1 Removed test in RPM distribution's test for RedHat 6 as it will clash 
>> with
>>  RHEL 6 and Fedora. Anyone still running RedHat 6 has bigger problems! :-)
>> 1 Worked round Perl bug in returning number of RBLs hit by a message.
>> 1 Fixed problem causing some password-protected RAR archives to be missed.
>> 
>> Jules
>> 
>> - --
>> Julian Field MEng CITP
>> www.MailScanner.info
>> Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
>> 
>> MailScanner customisation, or any advanced system administration help?
>> Contact me at Jules at Jules.FM
>> 
>> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
>> For all your IT requirements visit www.transtec.co.uk
>> 
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> - -- 
> Cheers
> Res
>
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- -- 

Cheers
Res

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