Release 4.60.1

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun May 20 09:26:24 UTC 2007


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Res wrote:
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> Hrmmmmm, I have DBI 1.56 installed but MS has decided to install 1.50 ?
I have found a bug which was causing this. It won't do it any more.
> Mailtools 1.71 but yet we have (had) 1.77
I have just upgraded that to 1.77, along with lots of others.

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> (and thats just the 2 I noticed)
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> 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.
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>> - -- 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:
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>> * 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
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>> MailScanner customisation, or any advanced system administration help?
>> Contact me at Jules at Jules.FM
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Jules

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