ClamAV 0.84 released

[Peter Russell]

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Do you recomend using this for upgrading RHEL mailscanner rpm installations?

Pete

Julian Field wrote:
> It turns out I'm a bit early, so I have just updated the
> ClamAV+SpamAssassin installation package so it contains
>
> SpamAssassin 3.0.3
> ClamAV 0.84
> & all the modules they need to have installed.
>
> Using this package is enormously easier than installing everything by
> hand yourself, as there are a lot of dependencies on other perl modules.
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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