gmane.comp.security.virus.clamav.announce

announcing ClamAV 0.97.4

Luca Gibelli — 2012-03-15T16:19:40

Dear ClamAV users,

ClamAV 0.97.4 includes minor bugfixes, detection improvements and initial
support for on-access scanning under Mac OS X (see contrib/ClamAuth).
This update is recommended for all users.

Download : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.97.4.tar.gz
PGP sig  : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.97.4.tar.gz.sig
Bugfixes : http://www.clamav.net/release-info/bugs/0.97.4
ChangeLog: http://www.clamav.net/release-info/changelog/0.97.4

announcing ClamAV 0.97.3

Luca Gibelli — 2011-10-18T15:52:25

[Apologies for the delay, the email got stuck in the moderator queue]

Dear ClamAV users,

ClamAV 0.97.3 is a minor bugfix release and is recommended for all
users. Please refer to the ChangeLog file for details.

Download : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.97.3.tar.gz
PGP sig  : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.97.3.tar.gz.sig
Bugfixes : http://www.clamav.net/release-info/bugs/0.97.3
ChangeLog: http://www.clamav.net/release-info/changelog/0.97.3

announcing ClamAV 0.97.2

Luca Gibelli — 2011-07-25T16:09:53

Dear ClamAV users,

ClamAV 0.97.2 fixes problems with the bytecode engine, Safebrowsing
detection, hash matcher, and other minor issues. Please see 
the ChangeLog file for details.

Download : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.97.2.tar.gz
PGP sig  : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.97.2.tar.gz.sig
Bugfixes : http://www.clamav.net/release-info/bugs/0.97.2
ChangeLog: http://www.clamav.net/release-info/changelog/0.97.2

*** Announcement ***

The ClamAV project is launching a new service called "Third Party web
interface". It will allow selected individuals/organizations to publish
ClamAV Virus Databases (CVD) through the ClamAV mirror network.

If you choose to publish your signatures through our Third Party
web interface you will benefit from the following:

- before publishing the signatures, we will test them for
  false positives against our false positive file collection.
- before publishing the signatures, we'll verify that the latest two
  major versions of ClamAV can load

announcing ClamAV 0.97.1

Luca Gibelli — 2011-06-09T09:33:38

Dear ClamAV users,


This is a bugfix release recommended for all users. Please refer to the
ChangeLog file for details.

Download : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.97.1.tar.gz
PGP sig  : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.97.1.tar.gz.sig
Bugfixes : http://www.clamav.net/release-info/bugs/0.97.1
ChangeLog: http://www.clamav.net/release-info/changelog/0.97.1

Possible problem with older versions of ClamAV(0.96-0.96.3)

Tomasz Kojm — 2011-02-17T09:46:34

Dear users,

ClamAV versions older than 0.96.4 are affected by a bug in the logical
signature parser, which can make them load and mishandle signatures
designed for newer engines. As a result, these versions may generate
incorrect detections, leading to false positive alerts.

If you're running one of these releases, we strongly advise to upgrade it.

Thank you,

announcing ClamAV 0.97

Luca Gibelli — 2011-02-07T18:46:26

Dear ClamAV users,


ClamAV 0.97 brings many improvements, including complete Windows support
(all major components compile out-of-box under Visual Studio), support for
signatures based on SHA1 and SHA256, better error detection, as well as 
speed and memory optimizations. The complete list of changes is available 
in the ChangeLog file. For upgrade notes and tips please see: 
https://wiki.clamav.net/Main/UpgradeNotes097

Download : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.97.tar.gz
PGP sig  : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.97.tar.gz.sig
Bugfixes : http://www.clamav.net/release-info/bugs/0.97
ChangeLog: http://www.clamav.net/release-info/changelog/0.97

With Sourcefire, Inc. acquisition of Immunet Corp., ClamAV for Windows
3.0 has been renamed Immunet 3.0, powered by ClamAV. This release
contains the fully integrated LibClamAV 0.97 engine for offline,
OnDemand, and OnAccess scanning. Immunet 3.0 users can now utilize
the full power of the LibClamAV engine, all the ClamAV signatures

announcing ClamAV 0.97rc

Luca Gibelli — 2011-01-31T23:21:40

Dear ClamAV users,

the release candidate for ClamAV 0.97 is available for download.

ClamAV 0.97 brings many improvements, including complete Windows support
(all major components compile out-of-box under Visual Studio), support
for signatures based on SHA1 and SHA256, better error detection, as well as 
speed and memory optimizations. The complete list of changes is
available in the ChangeLog file. For upgrade notes and tips please see: 
https://wiki.clamav.net/Main/UpgradeNotes097

We encourage as many people as possible to test this release. 
If you don't have access to a test machine you can still help 
by downloading it and checking for us that it compiles and links 
on your platform and by running "make check".
If you do have a test machine/model/network please help us by loading
ClamAV 0.97rc and testing.
All bug reports should be filed at http://bugs.clamav.net.
We also encourage all 3rd party developers of products and
distribution/port maintainers to download and check this update so that
you can

ClamAV Blog is back!

Joel Esler — 2011-01-07T21:53:41

All --

Just wanted to give you all a quick update.  The ClamAV blog, after a two
year hiatus, is now back.

http://blog.clamav.net

We'll keep this updated with all the latest ClamAV information and news
surrounding the project.  All of the ClamAV personnel are authors on the
blog, so we can expect some great content coming towards the blog.

Thanks!

announcing ClamAV 0.96.5

Luca Gibelli — 2010-11-30T14:17:20

Dear ClamAV users,


ClamAV 0.96.5 includes bugfixes and minor feature enhancements, such as
improved handling of detection statistics, better file logging,
and support for custom database URLs in freshclam. Please refer to the
ChangeLog for details.

Download : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.96.5.tar.gz
PGP sig  : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.96.5.tar.gz.sig
Bugfixes : http://www.clamav.net/release-info/bugs/0.96.5
ChangeLog: http://www.clamav.net/release-info/changelog/0.96.5

announcing ClamAV 0.96.4

Luca Gibelli — 2010-10-25T19:05:33

Dear ClamAV users,

ClamAV 0.96.4 is available for download.
This is a bugfix release recommended for all users.


--
The ClamAV team (http://www.clamav.net/team)

announcing ClamAV 0.96.3

Luca Gibelli — 2010-09-20T18:28:19

Dear ClamAV users,

ClamAV 0.96.3 is available for download.

This release fixes problems with the PDF parser and the internal bzip2
library. A complete list of changes is available in the Changelog file.

--
The ClamAV team (http://www.clamav.net/team)

ClamAV Releases

Tomasz Kojm — 2010-08-16T14:55:08

Dear Users,

ClamAV 0.96.2 was released on August 12, 2010.  If you missed it check
it out here: http://www.clamav.net/download/sources.  Highlights include:

1) Extended PDF parsing and extraction
2) Memory usage improvements
3) Speed improvements on DB loading
4) Improved handling of Safebrowsing DB
5) Bytecode clean ups and improvements

Numerous platform specific bugs, functionality bugs, and minor
enhancements were also added.  Please see the ClamAV bug tracker for
complete details (http://bugs.clamav.net).  Special thanks to all the
users that added bugs and feature requests, we appreciate your feedback
and support.

Additionally on August 16, 2010 ClamAV for Windows 2.0 was officially
launched.  This version contains a revamped GUI, numerous new detection
features, a new prevention engine, and a ton of other features.  If you
are one of the 150,000 current ClamAV for Windows 1.0 users check out
(http://www.clamav.net/about/win32) to upgrade to 2.0 and check out all
its new features.

Finally, the date

announcing ClamAV 0.96.2

Luca Gibelli — 2010-08-12T18:47:42

Dear ClamAV users,

ClamAV 0.96.2 has been released. 
This version brings a new PDF parser, performance and memory
improvements, and a number of bugfixes and minor enhancements. 
All users are recommended to upgrade.

--
The ClamAV team (http://www.clamav.net/team)

announcing ClamAV 0.96.1

Luca Gibelli — 2010-05-19T15:03:30

Dear ClamAV users,
          
This is a bugfix release, please refer to the ChangeLog for the complete
list of changes.

problem with daily.cvd 10938

Luca Gibelli — 2010-05-07T11:06:56

Dear ClamAV users,

about 15 mins ago we released daily.cvd 10938. This update apparently 
caused a segmentation fault in all ClamAV versions older than 0.96 
on 32 bit systems. 

We just released daily.cvd 10939 which removes the faulty signature and
we have taken measures to ensure that this problem won't happen again.

We recommend using a monitor tool like clamdwatch or clamdmon to
automatically restart clamd whenever it dies.

If you are already using a similar solution, your clamd will be
restarted automatically as soon as freshclam downloads the daily.cvd
10939 update.

We apologise for the inconvenience.

Regards,

End of Life Announcement: ClamAV 0.94.x

Luca Gibelli — 2010-04-07T14:11:09

Dear ClamAV users,

this is a reminder that starting from 15 April 2010 our CVD will contain
a special signature which disables all clamd installations older than
0.95 - that is to say older than 1 year.

We would like to keep on supporting all old versions of our engine, but
unfortunately this is no longer possible without causing a disservice to
people running a recent release of ClamAV.

For more information please refer to the original announcement:

http://lists.clamav.net/lurker/message/20091006.143601.d27bbd20.en.html

Regards,

announcing ClamAV 0.96

Luca Gibelli — 2010-03-31T20:39:01

Dear ClamAV users,

ClamAV 0.96 introduces new malware detection mechanisms and other
significant improvements to the scan engine. The key features of
ClamAV 0.96rc2 include:

- The Bytecode Interpreter: the interpreter built into LibClamAV allows
the signature writers to create and distribute very complex detection
routines and remotely enhance the scanner's functionality

- Heuristic improvements: improve the PE heuristics detection engine by
adding support of bogus icons and fake PE header information. In a
nutshell, ClamAV can now detect malware that tries to disguise itself
as a harmless application by using the most common Windows program
icons.

- Signature Improvements: logical signature improvements to allow more
detailed matching and referencing groups of signatures. Additionally,
improvements to wildcard matching on word boundaries and newlines.

- Support for new archives: 7zip, InstallShield and CPIO. LibClamAV
can now transparently unpack and inspect their contents.

- Support for new executab

Clamav 0.96 RC2 - win32 support

aCaB — 2010-03-26T17:31:12

ClamAV 0.96-rc2 includes preliminary windows support.

Preliminary means that, at this point, all the libraries and the tools
are verified to build without errors, to execute and to pass basic
checks like loading and updating the database, detection of test files,
etc. The code was however not tested in a production environment.

We encourage all the interested users to try the software and report
bugs on our bugzilla. As usual, the more the testing, the quicker the
bugs get uncovered and fixed.
Feel also free to open feature enhancement requests, especially if you
can provide a working patch.

As soon as the code will prove stable, it will be also included in the
ClamAV for Windows software to augment the scan effectiveness and to
allow offline virus scanning.

If you wish to try ClamAV 0.96-rc2 on windows you can build it from
sources (see win32/README for details) or you can use the binaries found
at http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamav/files/clamav/win32/


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announcing ClamAV 0.96rc2

Luca Gibelli — 2010-03-24T19:18:05

Dear ClamAV users,

this is the second release candidate for ClamAV 0.96.

In this version, we introduce new malware detection mechanisms and other
significant improvements to the scan engine. The key features of 
ClamAV 0.96rc2 include:

- The Bytecode Interpreter: the interpreter built into LibClamAV allows
the signature writers to create and distribute very complex detection
routines and remotely enhance the scanner's functionality

- Heuristic improvements: improve the PE heuristics detection engine by
adding support of bogus icons and fake PE header information. In a
nutshell, ClamAV can now detect malware that tries to disguise itself
as a harmless application by using the most common Windows program icons.

- Signature Improvements: logical signature improvements to allow more
detailed matching and referencing groups of signatures. Additionally,
improvements to wildcard matching on word boundaries and newlines.

- Support for new archives: 7zip, InstallShield and CPIO. LibClamAV
can now transparently

Personal stats

Luca Gibelli — 2010-03-22T16:00:36

Hello,

0.96rc1 introduces support for Personal stats. 

It's now possible to view a chart of the amount of malware detected by
your ClamAV installation and generate a RSS feed with the most common 
malware detected by your ClamAV installation.

In order to enable Personal stats you must:

- install 0.96rc1 or later version
- go to http://www.stats.clamav.net
- login using your favourite OpenID
- click on "Add a new host" to obtain an HostID
- copy&paste the HostID to your freshclam.conf

For a detailed explanation, please visit
http://wiki.clamav.net/bin/view/Main/ClamStats

The service is still in beta, please feel free to report any problems to
our bugzilla, using the appropriate product/component combination.

Regards,

announcing ClamAV 0.96rc1

Luca Gibelli — 2010-03-10T20:17:31

Dear ClamAV users,


This release of ClamAV introduces new malware detection mechanisms and other
significant improvements to the scan engine. The key features include:

    - The Bytecode Interpreter: the interpreter built into LibClamAV allows
      the signature writers to create and distribute very complex detection
      routines and remotely enhance the scanner's functionality

    - Heuristic improvements: improve the PE heuristics detection engine by
      adding support of bogus icons and fake PE header information. In a
      nutshell, ClamAV can now detect malware that tries to disguise itself
      as a harmless application by using the most common Windows program icons.

    - Signature Improvements: logical signature improvements to allow more
      detailed matching and referencing groups of signatures. Additionally,
      improvements to wildcard matching on word boundaries and newlines.

    - Support for new archives: 7zip, InstallShield and CPIO. LibClamAV
      can now transparently unpa