FYI ALL: Fwd: [Clamav-announce] announcing ClamAV 0.94

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Sep 3 14:14:51 IST 2008


My newly updated ClamAV+SpamAssassin package should do this for you.

Rick Cooper wrote:
> Note:
>
> If you happened to forget to remove PhishingRestrictedScan from your
> clamd.conf when the option was removed in 0.93.1(?), as I did, clamd will
> not start and it will emit no error (unless you run in foreground manually)
> or reason. Remove the PhishingRestrictedScan line from clamd.conf and
> everything will be fine.
>
> Rick 
>
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
>  > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
>  > Behalf Of dnsadmin 1bigthink.com
>  > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 2:02 PM
>  > To: MailScanner mailing list
>  > Subject: FYI ALL: Fwd: [Clamav-announce] announcing ClamAV 0.94
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
>  > >Dear ClamAV users,
>  > >
>  > >Sourcefire and the ClamAV team are pleased to announce the 
>  > release of
>  > >ClamAV 0.94. The following are the key features and 
>  > improvements of this
>  > >version:
>  > >
>  > >   - Logical Signatures: The logical signature technology 
>  > uses operators
>  > >     such as AND, OR and NOT to allow the combination of 
>  > more than one
>  > >     signature into one entry in the signature database resulting in
>  > >     more detailed and flexible pattern matching.
>  > >
>  > >   - Anti-phishing Technology: Users can now change the 
>  > priority and reporting
>  > >     of ClamAV's heuristic anti-phishing scanner within the 
>  > detection engine
>  > >     process. They can choose whether, when scanning a 
>  > supicious file, ClamAV
>  > >     should stop scanning and report the phish, or continue to scan 
>  > > in case the
>  > >     file contains other malware (clamd: HeuristicScanPrecedence,
>  > >     clamscan: --heuristic-scan-precedence)
>  > >
>  > >   - Disassembly Engine: The initial version of the disassembly 
>  > > engine improves
>  > >     ClamAV's detection abilities.
>  > >
>  > >   - PUA Detection: Users can now decide which PUA 
>  > signatures should be loaded
>  > >     (clamd: ExcludePUA, IncludePUA; clamscan: 
>  > --exclude-pua, --include-pua)
>  > >
>  > >   - Data Loss Prevention (DLP): This version includes a 
>  > new module that, when
>  > >     enabled, scans data for the inclusion of US formated 
>  > Social Security
>  > >     Numbers and credit card numbers (clamd: 
>  > StructuredDataDetection,
>  > >     clamscan: --detect-structured; additional fine-tuning options 
>  > > are available)
>  > >
>  > >   - IPv6 Support: Freshclam now supports IPv6
>  > >
>  > >   - Improved Scanning of Scripts: The normalization of 
>  > scripts now covers
>  > >     JavaScript
>  > >
>  > >   - Improved QA and Unit Testing: The improved QA process 
>  > now includes
>  > >     API testing and new library of test files in various 
>  > formats that are
>  > >     tested on a wide variety of systems (try running 'make check' 
>  > > in the source
>  > >     directory)
>  > >
>  > >For more details, please refer to 
>  > >http://www.clamav.net/press/0.94-WhatsNew.pdf
>  > >and to the ChangeLog.
>  > >
>  > >You may need to run 'ldconfig' after installing this version.
>  > >
>  > >** This version drops the special support for Cygwin. Our 
>  > QA process showed
>  > >** serious problems with ClamAV builds under Cygwin due to 
>  > some low-level
>  > >** incompatibilities in the POSIX compatibility layer, 
>  > resulting in unreliable
>  > >** ClamAV behaviour.
>  > >
>  > >--
>  > >The ClamAV team (http://www.clamav.net/team)
>  > >
>  > >--
>  > >Luca Gibelli (luca _at_ clamav.net)       ClamAV, a GPL 
>  > anti-virus toolkit
>  > >[Tel] +39 0187 1851862 [Fax] +39 0187 1852252 [IM] 
>  > nervous/jabber.linux.it
>  > >PGP key id 5EFC5582 @ any key-server || 
>  > http://www.clamav.net/gpg/luca.gpg
>  > >_______________________________________________
>  > >http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-announce
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