October 16th, 2006 Posted by - webmaster
The first release candidate of the long awaited
ClamAV 0.90 is ready for general testing!
The 0.9x series introduces lots of improvements in terms of detection rate and performance, like support for many new packers and decryptors, RAR3 and SIS archives, and a new phishing signatures format that proves to be very effective.
The email decoding has been improved to reduce both the memory requirements and the time taken to process attachments. We have been working (Read more...)
October 16th, 2006 Posted by - webmaster
In the hope to get more detailed bug reports and coordinate the work of people testing our experimental code, we decided to open a bug tracker.
After checking many different bug tracker, we decided to stick to the well known Bugzilla.
Please use it wisely: http://bugs.clamav.net
April 30th, 2006 Posted by - webmaster
Summer of Code 2006 is a program sponsored by Google, that offers student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects.
The ClamAV project is happy to join this event and get some help from emerging developers to quickly implement some of the features that are currently on our TODO list.
Google will give 5000 USD per accepted student, of which 4500 USD goes to the student and 500 USD goes to (Read more...)
April 30th, 2006 Posted by - webmaster
W32.Polipos.A is a complex polimorphic virus infecting 32-bit Windows executables. The virus uses advanced techniques, such as entry point obscuring, to make the detection even harder. It can also spread via P2P networks and contains procedures against security software.
Extensive tests in our secure environments showed that ClamAV 0.88.2 was able to detect 100% W32.Polipos.A infections without producing a single false positive alert. (3 comments)
April 13th, 2006 Posted by - webmaster
On April 12, the security company SonicWALL announced Day Zero protection against vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus. The press release (see: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060412/sfw078.html?.v=47) bewildered ClamAV developers. The problem described in the press release was… already fixed in the 0.88.1 version of ClamAV published on April 4. Moreover, it was ranked by the Clam AntiVirus programmers as low risk.
Information about “Clam AntiVirus Win32-UPX Heap Overflow” was posted to bugtraq (url: http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/Apr/0174.html) on
April 6, by a (Read more...)
