New beta release 4.72.4-1

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Should they not be called RootKit ;) Fingers crossed that call comes in soon Jules and not another tele-marketing one instead!

Regards,

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----- "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Folks!
> 
> 
> 
> Firstly, a big apology for not being around the place much recently.
> 
> Several reasons.
> 
> 
> 
> Number one, I now have two incredibly cute kittens to look after:
> 
> http://www.jules.fm/gallery/v/CatsDay1/
> 
> http://www.jules.fm/gallery/v/RootAndCisco/
> 
> 
> 
> Number two, I seem to have had quite a lot on at work (my day-job).
> 
> 
> 
> Number three, between numbers one and two, I just haven't had any
> energy
> 
> left. I'm struggling quite hard to keep my weight up (currently only
> 
> weigh 8 stone 1, 113 pounds, 51 kg) and just don't have much energy at
> 
> the moment. There have been a load of colds going round, and while I
> 
> don't really get colds (certainly never get blocked nose, stuffy head,
> 
> anything like that) they still hit me a bit. As for the new liver,
> well
> 
> they want to redo all the MRI scans, so I've got a few hours in an MRI
> 
> scanner to look forward to. A rather critical new vein has opened up,
> 
> which totally changed their surgical plan, and they need to be very
> sure
> 
> it isn't going to close again or anything daft like that. And no, the
> 
> phone hasn't rung yet, I'm still waiting for the liver transplant
> call. :-)
> 
> 
> 
> So MailScanner has had to go on a bit of a back burner for a while.
> I'm
> 
> sure you understand :-)
> 
> 
> 
> Mean time, I have just put out a new beta release, which will go
> stable
> 
> in a few days if no-one finds anything horribly wrong with it. So
> please
> 
> do test it for me!
> 
> 
> 
> Here is the Change Log:
> 
> 
> 
> * New Features and Improvements *
> 
> 1 Added support for ClamAV 0.94. Note that this has necessitated
> removal of
> 
>   complete support for earlier versions of ClamAV as the command-line
> 
> settings
> 
>   are incompatible. So only use this version if you have upgraded to
> the
> 
> latest
> 
>   ClamAV 0.94.
> 
> 2 The "Found to be clean" header will not be added to the message at
> all if
> 
>   the relevant configuration setting is blank in MailScanner.conf.
> 
> 2 Filename and filetype checks are now done before virus scanning.
> This
> 
> means
> 
>   that you can use the "deny+delete" type of filename or filetype rule
> to
> 
>   selectively delete files that will choke your buggy virus scanner.
> 
> 4 "install.sh" now logs all output to "install.log".
> 
> 4 The RPM and SuSE versions of "install.sh" now have a "reinstall"
> command-
> 
>   line option which will make it attempt to remove the Perl RPMs
> before it
> 
>   installs them, in case you have changed your Perl version enough
> that the
> 
>   previous Perl modules were not being found by your new setup. Very
> handy
> 
>   for Fedora upgraders, among others.
> 
> 4 Improvements to the "reinstall" command-line switch so it removes
> all the
> 
>   old versions first, before it starts installing anything new.
> 
> 4 Updated MIME-tools to version 5.427.
> 
> 4 Minor improvement to phishing net.
> 
> 4 Added check to --lint for sufficiently correct /tmp permissions.
> 
> 
> 
> * Fixes *
> 
> 1 Changed logging of clamd so that it reports the virus scanner name
> 
> correctly.
> 
> 2 Removed debug code from OLE unpacking code.
> 
> 3 Fixed log handling bug in filename rules matching code, thanks to
> 
> Derek Chee.
> 
> 4 Fixed bug where whole message body was deleted if a file nested
> within 2
> 
>   zip files failed filename tests.
> 
> 4 Fixed reporting bug in 'service MailScanner status' where it would
> produce
> 
>   an error instead of saying the incoming sendmail process was working
> fine.
> 
> 4 Fixed a parsing bug in the "Avast" scanner support.
> 
> 4 Minor change to error message when /tmp has wrong permissions.
> 
> 
> 
> Jules

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