I'm curious to see opinions about this one. ------------ Forwarded Message ------------ Date: Monday, October 16, 2006 3:57 AM +0200 From: Luca Gibelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ClamAV Announce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Clamav-announce] announcing ClamAV 0.90RC1
Dear ClamAV users, The first Release Candidate of the long awaited ClamAV 0.90 is ready for general testing! This version introduces lots of new interesting features and marks a big step forward in the development of our antivirus engine. The most important change is the introduction of scripted updates. Instead of transferring the whole cvd file at each update, only the differences between the latest cvds and the previous versions will be transferred. In case the local copy of the latest cvd is corrupted or the scripted update fails for some reason, freshclam will fallback to the old method. Similarly to cvd files, scripted updates are compressed and digitally signed and are already being distributed. They will dramatically reduce traffic on our mirrors and will allow us to release even more updates in the future. Another noticeable change is the new configuration syntax: you can now turn single options on and off, the old crude hack of "DisableDefaultScanOptions" is no longer required. Cosmetic changes apart, the 0.9x series introduces lots of new code, but some parts are not compiled in by default because they are not ready for production systems yet. You are encouraged to pass the --enable-experimental flag to ./configure when compiling ClamAV. If you find a bug, please take some time to report it on our bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net. Your help in testing the new code is really appreciated. The experimental code introduces many improvements in terms of detection rate and performances. RAR3, SIS and SFX archives support is finally available together with new unpackers and decryptors: pespin, sue, yc, wwpack32 and others. Additionally, ClamAV now includes better mechanisms for scanning ELF, PDF and tar files. As part of the Google Summer of Code program, we have introduced support for a new phishing signatures format that has proved very effective in detecting phishing emails. The ClamAV phishing module allows better and more generic detection of phishing emails by searching for URLs in email messages, and comparing the real site with the URL displayed to the user in the message. On the performance side, support for the MULTISCAN command has been implemented in clamd, allowing to scan multiple files simultaneously. Support for Sensory Networks NodalCore (http://www.clamav.net/nodalcore/) acceleration in ClamAV is now available and will be compiled in if the ncore libraries are detected at compile time. NodalCore acceleration allows highly improved scan speeds on systems equipped with NodalCore cards. -- The ClamAV team (http://www.clamav.net/team.html) -- Luca Gibelli (luca _at_ clamav.net) - ClamAV, a GPL anti-virus toolkit [Tel] +44 2081239239 [Fax] +39 0187015046 [IM] nervous/jabber.linux.it PGP key id 5EFC5582 @ key server || http://www.clamav.net/gpg/luca.gpg _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-announce ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
