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Tomasz Kojm authored on 2006/10/30 21:50:05
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 Release Candidate.
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-The first Release Candidate of the long awaited ClamAV 0.90 is ready for 
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-general testing! This version introduces lots of new interesting features
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-and marks a big step forward in the development of our antivirus engine.
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+The Release Candidate of the long awaited ClamAV 0.90 is ready for general
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+testing! This version introduces lots of new interesting features and marks
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+a big step forward in the development of our antivirus engine.
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 The most important change is the introduction of scripted updates.
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 Instead of transferring the whole cvd file at each update, only the
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 RAR3, SIS and SFX archives support is finally available together with 
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 new unpackers and decryptors: pespin, sue, yc, wwpack32 and others.
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 Additionally, ClamAV now includes better mechanisms for scanning ELF, PDF
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-and tar files.
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+and tar files. The email decoding has been improved to reduce both the memory
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+requirements and the time taken to process attachments.
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 As part of the Google Summer of Code program, we have introduced support for
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 a new phishing signatures format that has proved very effective in detecting
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 NodalCore cards.
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+Detailed list of changes (to be finished):
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+-) libclamav:
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+  + New unpacker for RAR3, RAR2 and RAR1
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+  + Support for RAR and Zip SFX archives
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+  + Support for PE32+ (64-bit) executables
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+  + Support for PE section based MD5 signatures (.mdb)
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+  + ELF file parser
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+  + Support for Sensory Networks' NodalCore hardware acceleration technology
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+  + Advanced phishing detection module (experimental)
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+  + Phishing detection can be disabled with CL_DB_NOPHISHING
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+  + Signatures are stored in separate trees depending on their target type
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+  + Algorithmic detection can be controlled with CL_SCAN_ALGO
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+  + Support for obfuscators: SUE (experimental), Y0da Cryptor, CryptFF
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+  + Support for unpackers: NsPack (experimental), wwpack32
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+  + Support for SIS files (SybmianOS installer packages)
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+  + Support for PDF files
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+-) clamd:
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+  + New config file parser:
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+    * all options require arguments (options without args must be now followed
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+      by boolean values: (yes, no), (1, 0), or (true, false)
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+    * optional arguments (as in NotifyClamd) are no longer supported
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+    * removed "DisableDefaultScanOptions" option (scan options can be
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+      configured individually)
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+  + TCP and local sockets can be operated simultaneously
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+  + New command: MULTISCAN (scan directory with multiple threads)
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+  + New option DetectPhishing
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+  + New option AlgorithmicDetection
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+  + New option NodalCore
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+  + New option PhishingStrictURLCheck
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+  + New option ScanELF
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+  + Black list mode: optionally black lists an IP for a configurable amount
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+    of time
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+  + Black hole mode: detects emails that will be discarded and refrains from
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+    scanning them
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+  + Reporting: ability to report phishing attempts to anti-phishing
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+    organisations to help close the sites
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+  + Improved load balancing for scanning with clusters
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+-) clamscan:
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+  + New options: --no-phishing, --no-algorithmic (disable phishing and
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+  + New option: --ncore
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+  + New option: --no-elf
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+  + New option: --copy
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+-) freshclam:
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+  + interpreter for .cdiff files (scripted updates)
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+  + new option HTTPUserAgent to force different User-Agent header
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+-) sigtool:
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+  + New option: --utf16-decode (decode UTF16 encoded files)
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+  + New options: --diff, --run-cdiff, --verify-cdiff (update script management)
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 The ClamAV team (http://www.clamav.net/team.html)
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