ANNOUNCE: 4.29.2 released for Bagle.Q

[Jeff Earickson]

I just upgraded to 4.29.2 on my production system (30K messages/day).
When I install a beta version, I weigh the importance of the new
features (versus the stable version) against the risk of Julian
goofing badly.  In two years of my using MailScanner, he never has.

Last month, the advantages of upgrading because of the Bagle/Netsky
viruses far outweighed the risks, IMHO.  On March 1, I upgraded
three times in one day to keep with Julian's improvements!

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Francesco Rotondo wrote:

> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:43:36 +0100
> From: Francesco Rotondo <f.rotondo at TESEO.IT>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: 4.29.2 released for Bagle.Q
>
> Hi,
>
> is it safe enough to upgrade to this beta version? Or is it better to wait
> for a stable one, or even better just a patch to apply to 4-28.6?
>
> Regards,
>
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:37 PM
> Subject: ANNOUNCE: 4.29.2 released for Bagle.Q
>
>
> > Morning all,
> >
> > With the release of this new (beta) version, MailScanner now detects the
> > <Object Data=...> HTML tags used by the Bagle.Q worm.
> >
> > Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info
> >
> > (For those using the RPM distributions, the only file I have changed is
> the
> > mailscanner*rpm file itself)
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> >
> > PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
> >
> >
>