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Changes for v0.98.6 - v0.98.7

  • PDF processing improvements
  • Improvements in detection and processing of packed executables
  • Improved handling of iso9660 files
  • Other important bug fixes



Changes for v0.98.5 - v0.98.6

  • Bug fixes in detection of files produced by upx, upack and mew packagers
  • Other bug fixes and feature improvements



Changes for v0.98.4.1 - v0.98.5

  • Support for the XDP file format including embedded PDF files
  • Improved detection of malicious PE files
  • Other bug fixes and feature improvements



Changes for v0.98.4 - v0.98.4.1

  • This release updates ClamAV scanning engine to the latest version and brings following improvements:
  • Added support for Office Open XML files
  • Fixed a bug in Outlook scanning module introduced in 0.98.4 release
  • Other bug fixes and stability improvements



Changes for v0.98 - v0.98.1

  • Support for new file formats and archives: DMG, XAR, Xz
  • Improvements in scanning of Microsoft OLE files
  • Various other improvements



Changes for v0.97.8 - v0.98

  • New virus signature targets enable detection of PDF, Flash, and Java class files.
  • New filetypes supported in the scanner include ISO9660, Flash and 7-zip self-extracting archives.
  • Performance and memory management improvements.



Changes for v0.97.6 - v0.97.7

  • Several potential security bugs have been fixed



Changes for v0.97.5 - v0.97.6

  • Scanning code optimizations



Changes for v0.97.4 - v0.97.5

  • Improved bytecode signature loading
  • Improved handling of tar archives and chm files
  • Various performance improvements



Changes for v0.97.3 - v0.97.4

  • Improved Macrovirus detection
  • Various performance improvements



Changes for v0.97.1 - v0.97.2

  • fixed problems with the bytecode engine
  • Improved hash matching
  • Other bugfixes and improvements



Changes for v0.97 - v0.97.1

  • Better detection for encrypted PDF documents
  • Improved handling of bytecode signatures
  • Other bugfixes and improvements



Changes for v0.96.5 - v0.97

  • Quarantine Browser with an option to restore quarantined files
  • Digital signature verification method to minimize false positive detections
  • Other bugfixes and improvements



Changes for v0.96.4 - v0.96.5

  • Improved byte code signature loading
  • Fixed detection of embedded executables
  • Other bugfixes



Changes for v0.96.2.1 - v0.96.4

  • Fixed an issue with false positive detection
  • Improvements in signature database loading time



Changes for v0.96.2 - v0.96.2.1

  • Faster database loading time
  • Improvements in false positive elimination
  • Improvements in bytecode scanning



Changes for v0.96.1 - v0.96.2

  • Faster database loading time
  • Improvements in false positive elimination
  • Improvements in bytecode scanning



Changes for v0.96.0.1 - v0.96.1

  • Better and faster loading of the virus signature database
  • Improvements in 7zip archive scanning
  • Improvements in bytecode signatures



Changes for v0.96 - v0.96.0.1

  • Bytecode detection signatures allow more complex patterns and better detection
  • Heuristics improvements
  • Digital Signature verification prevents false positive detection for Windows system files
  • Other scanning enhancements



Changes for v0.95.3 - v0.96

  • Bytecode detection signatures allow more complex patterns and better detection
  • Heuristics improvements
  • Digital Signature verification prevents false positive detection for Windows system files
  • Other scanning enhancements



Changes for v0.95.2 - v0.95.3

  • Improved virus signature handling
  • Improved scanning speed of large executables
  • Fixed detection of encrypted zip files embedded into other files
  • Improved loading speed of compressed virus signature databases
  • Other scanning enhancements



Changes for v0.95.1 - v0.95.2

  • Added malware detection in archives hidden inside other files (eg. images)
  • Improved scanning of RAR and CAB archives
  • Other scanning enhancements



Changes for v0.94.1 - v0.95.1

  • Better ZIP archive handling
  • fixed possible false positive detection
  • A lot of other bug fixes fixes and improvements



Changes for v0.94 - v0.94.1

  • Fixed Daylight Savings bug in Clamwin scheduler
  • A number of pattern detection improvements in ClamAV engine



Changes for v0.93.1 - v0.94

  • Disassembly engine and support for logical signatures improve malware detection
  • Improved scanning of scripts
  • Scheduler enhancements with internet connection state detection



Changes for v0.93 - v0.93.1

  • This release updates ClamAV scanning engine and includes several improvements:
  • Improved handling of PDF, CAB, RTF, OLE2 and HTML files
  • Added a configuration parameter for MS Outlook Splash Screen
  • Several important bugfixes



Changes for v0.92 - v0.93

  • Considerably faster scanning speed
  • More intelligent database updates with online connection status checking
  • Improved archived files handling.



Changes for v0.91.2 - v0.92

  • updated ClamAV engine to 0.92. New ClamAV engine significantly improves database loading time and scanning speed
  • resolved MS Vista compatibility issues
  • added Windows theme support
  • fixed temp file deletion problem
  • added --detect-pua option (turned off by default)



Changes for v0.91.1 - v0.91.2

  • Bugfixes and changes since 0.91.1:
  • libclamav/rtf.c: fix possible NULL dereference bb#611)
  • libclamav/ole2_extract.c: properly initialise hdr.max_block_no (bb#603)
  • libclamav/htmlnorm.c: fix possible NULL dereference (bb#582), thanks to Stefanos Stamatis
  • libclamav/htmlnorm.c: fix call to tolower() (bb#580)
  • libclamav/filetypes.c: some embedded PEs were not being detected
  • clamav-milter: Fix compilation error on NetBSD2.0
  • clamav-milter: Black-hole-mode no longer needs to be run as root
  • libclamav/pdf.c: Bug 618, --block-max not always honoured
  • libclamav/phishcheck.c, regex_list.c, phish_whitelist.c: make debug output look better (patch from Sven)
  • libclamav/phishcheck.c: Don't report phishing on broken urls containing '>' in the hostname. (bb #619)
  • libclamav, sigtool: add support for PUA databases (.hdu, .mdu, .ndu), requested by Christoph
  • clamscan: add --detect-pua
  • clamd, clamd.conf: add DetectPUA
  • freshclam/mirman.c: properly handle mirror access times (bb#606, only outdated installations - three versions behind the latest one were affected by this problem), Reported by David F. Skoll
  • clamav-milter: Bug 614
  • libclamav/pdf.c: Bug 608
  • clamav-milter: SPF checking no longer experimental
  • libclamav/phishcheck.c: workaround Solaris problem with regexec() [bb #598]
  • libclamav/matcher-ac.c: fix matching of patterns with prefixes and some other issues spotted by Glen
  • clamav-milter/clamav-milter.c: Better use of res_init()
  • clamav-milter/clamav-milter.c: HP-UX doesn't have EX_CONFIG, reported by clam * ministry.se



Changes for v0.90.2.1 - v0.91.1

  • Updated ClamAV to 0.91.1, which should improve archive and packed executable scanning as well as improve database loading times.
  • Fixed duplicate database loading in certain cases



Changes for v0.90.2 - v0.90.2.1

  • Outlook Addin now uses pylibclamav instead of clamscan to improve speed of email opening
  • New upgrades system getting ready for incremental updates



Changes for v0.90.1.1 - v0.90.2

  • Updated ClamAV scanning engine to 0.90.2



Changes for v0.90 - v0.90.1

  • Upgraded ClamAV to 0.90.1
  • Fixed relative path problem with database lock mechanism in freshclam
  • Supressed getfile and getpatch errors for intranet database updates
  • Added a warning if the database is older than 3 days
  • Minor bugfixes



Changes for v0.88.7 - v0.90

  • Added new option to scan MS Windows Executable files only in order to improve scanning speed. This option is in the "Advanced" tab and is turned on by default.
  • Added an option to disable scanning of incoming and/or outgoing emails in MS Outlook. These options are available in the "Email Scanning" tab
  • Added "Technical Support" link to Help menu.



Changes for v0.88.6 - v0.88.7

  • Bugfixes and enhancements in ClamAV email scanning
  • Fixed problems with certain temporary file names



Changes for v0.88.5 - v0.88.6

  • New feature to allow unloading of infected programs from computer memory
  • Better temporary file management and cleanup



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