Beta 4.39.1 released

[Julian Field]

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The biggest single feature you are missing is the "phishing net" which
is acknowledged by other people to be at the forefront of the phishing
detection market. That opinion is from people who work with governments
and major banks. But I would wait for the stable 4.39 unless you want to
run the latest beta, due to a phishing net bugfix.

Peter Russell wrote:

> Hi there.
>
> I am using 4.29-7 on FreeBSd - is it worth upgrading to latest stable
> yet? I realise there are new features, but do the newer version have a
> hugely better chance of stopping more spam and viruses?
>
> Does anyone know if there is an upgrade guide for FreeBSD anywhere? Can
> i just do a portupgrade ?
>
> Thanks
> Pete
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> I have just released the first beta of the next version of MailScanner,
>> 4.39.1.
>>
>> There have been a little collection of relatively important fixes in
>> this release, especially for users of the phishing net who may have seen
>> occasional messages with the body of the HTML email appearing to be
>> mostly blank.
>>
>> Download it as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
>>
>> The full Change Log is this:
>> * New Features and Improvements *
>> - If the AttachmentWarning message put into a message is empty
>> (zero-length)
>>  then the empty attachment won't be added to the message at all.
>> - Added scanning of PE's by default to clamavmodule scanner.
>> - Added feature when IP address in a ruleset has all 4 numbers, so
>> that a
>>  full string match is done against the client IP, not a substring match.
>> - Added support for output from latest F-Prot.
>>
>> * Fixes *
>> - Corrected problem with <a> tags that have no text contents and no
>> </a>.
>> - 2 minor typos in the Swedish reports.
>> - Changed check_MailScanner to check_mailscanner in cron job.
>> - Fixed problem where files with no extension, inside a zip file, were
>>  extracted with ".dat" added onto the end of them.
>> - Fixed problem with phishing net being confused by some malformed URLs.
>>
>> --
>> Julian Field
>> www.MailScanner.info
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