Software-update: Clamav 0.93.3

Clam Antivirus is een antivirusprogramma voor Linux en Freebsd, dat zich voornamelijk richt op de integratie met mailservers voor het scannen van berichten en bijlagen. Naast een antivirusdaemon bestaat Clamav uit een commandline-scanner en een tool voor het automatisch bijwerken van de virusdefinities via internet. De ontwikkelaars hebben een aantal bugs opgelost en daarom versie 0.93.3 uitgebracht. De aankondigingen sinds de vorige vermelding in de Meuktracker zien er als volgt uit:

Version 0.93.3:
This release fixes a problem in handling of .cld files introduced in 0.93.2.

Version 0.93.2:
This release fixes and re-enables the Petite unpacker, improves database loading and solves some other minor issues.

Version 0.93.1:
This version improves handling of PDF, CAB, RTF, OLE2 and HTML files and includes various bugfixes for 0.93 issues.

Version 0.93:
This release introduces many new features and engine enhancements, please see the notes below for the list of major changes. The most visible one is the new logic in scan limits which affects some command line and config options of clamscan and clamd. Please see clamscan(1) and clamd.conf(5) and the example config file for more information on the new options.

Most important changes include:

libclamav:

• New logic in scan limits: provides much more efficient protection against DoS attacks but also results in different command line and config options to clamscan and clamd (see below)
• New/improved modules: unzip, SIS, cabinet, CHM, SZDD, text normalisator, entity converter
• Improved filetype detection; filetype definitions can be remotely updated
• Support for .cld containers (which replace .inc directories)
• Improved pattern matcher and signature formats
• More efficient scanning of HTML files
• Many other improvements

clamd:

• NEW CONFIG FILE OPTIONS: MaxScanSize, MaxFileSize, MaxRecursion, MaxFiles
• ** THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTED **: MailMaxRecursion, ArchiveMaxFileSize, ArchiveMaxRecursion, ArchiveMaxFiles, ArchiveMaxCompressionRatio, ArchiveBlockMax

clamscan:

• NEW CMDLINE OPTIONS: --max-filesize, --max-scansize
• REMOVED OPTIONS: --block-max, --max-space, --max-ratio

freshclam:

• NEW CONFIG OPTION CompressLocalDatabase
• NEW CMDLINE SWITCH --no-warnings
• main.inc and daily.inc directories are no longer used by ClamAV; please remove them manually from your database directory