Version history for ClamWin
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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
