ClamAV 0.84 released

[Julian Field]

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Cool!
I'm about to go out for an evening off, but hope that tomorrow I will
build this into the ClamAV+SA tarball I make for you.

I'm also planning on releasing the stable 4.41 tomorrow too. Assuming
that it's the 1st May tomorrow (I've got a bit lost recently)... :-)

Stephen Swaney wrote:

>ClamAV 0.84 released
>http://www.clamav.net
>
>Notes
>Release Name: 0.84
>
>Notes:
>0.84
>----
>
>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! Visit
>http://www.clamav.net/snapshot/
>
>-) 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
>
>Steve
>
>Steve Swaney
>President
>Fortress Systems Ltd.
>www.fsl.com
>steve.swaney at fsl.com
>
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