ClamAV 0.84 released

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon May 2 13:05:52 IST 2005


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Are you sure you don't have 2 perls installed?
Do a locate or a find for SpamAssassin.pm and see if it finds more than 1.

Roger Jochem wrote:

>I just installed the new package, and when I run a SpamAssassin lint it
>shows version 3.0.2 for me... What could be the problem?
>
>I already searched and don't have the rpm verison installed, only the
>tarball one...
>
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>From: "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 2:07 PM
>Subject: Re: ClamAV 0.84 released
>
>
>
>
>>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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