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
> > >_______________________________________________
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> >
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