## A Free Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam Filter
Protecting over 5 billion e-mails every week, for many tens of millions of users

## Over 500,000 downloads

### Version 4.43 2nd July 2005

## Contents

- E-Mail Fraud Attempts — Alert!
- Was your mail rejected by MailScanner?
- News
- On-line store
- MailScanner Users' Comments and Testimonials Guest Book
- A few MailScanner users

## Buy the book! (updated)

- Downloads
- Documentation
- Support
- Deploying MailScanner with Microsoft Exchange Server
  (or any other unsupported mail server)
- E-Mail the team
- Please donate or buy the book
- Poetry

## News

2/07/2005 | Released stable version 4.43.8. Major new feature this month is the "Generic Spam Scanner" so that you can easily plug in any other spam scanner that you want to use in addition or, or instead of, SpamAssassin. See the Change Log for more details.
21/06/2005 | Released beta version 4.43.3. Various new feature, fixes and improvements, see the Change Log for more details.
7/06/2005 | Updated Clam+SpamAssassin distribution package for SpamAssassin 3.0.4. You can download it and install it with its `install.sh` script.
1/06/2005 | Released stable version 4.42.9. Some new options this month, such as the ability to tag the subject line of messages which have been disarmed, so that users don't waste time trying to work out why the forms in their email messages don't work. Also now passes testvirus.org "null mime-boundary test". For full info, please see the Change Log.
30/05/2005 | Released beta 4.42.8 including major changes to the way new child worker processes are managed.
26/05/2005 | Released beta 4.42.7 including some more bug fixes. See the Change Log for more info.
26/05/2005 | Released beta 4.42.5 including a few new options. See the Change Log for full details of what there is.
23/05/2005 | Fixed null MIME boundary vulnerability, as this bug had crept back in again after the last MIME-tools upgrade.
19/05/2005 | A few fixes, re-written Panda support, Sophos 3.93.2 support, improvements to setup detection and checking of Incoming Work Directory path. Full details in the Change Log.
11/05/2005 | If you are using Sophos version 3.93.2 or later, you need to replace your sophos-autoupdate file with this new version.
30/04/2005 | Released stable version 4.41.3. Major changes this month include support for Solaris 10 and AMD64 Fedora Core 3, wildcards in the phishing.safe.sites.conf, Linux-specific IPv6, many phishing net improvements, and several small bug-fixes. Please read the ChangeLog for full details.
30/04/2005 | Released new version ClamAV+SpamAssassin installation package. This now contains SpamAssassin 3.0.3 and ClamAV 0.84 (the latest of both packages).
27/04/2005 | Releases beta version 4.41.2. Bugfix release. Please read the Change Log for more details.
20/04/2005 | Releases beta version 4.41.1. More improvements to the phishing net, and a few fixes, and support for x86_64 Fedora Core 3 systems in the installation scripts. Please read the Change Log for more details.
13/04/2005 | Announced the new Wiki documentation web site. This supercedes the MAQ and the FAQ and contains all user-written documentation. Please contribute anything you think might be useful to other MailScanner users.
02/04/2005 | Released stable version 4.40.11. Major changes this month include support for RAR 3 archives, removal of multiple Subject: headers, more improvements to the "phishing net", improved RAR archive analysis, support for default setups of Postfix 2.2 and addition of a timeout to the BitDefender updater. For a full list of new features, improvements and fixes, please see the Change Log.
27/03/2005 | Released beta version 4.40.8. Finally fixed the defunct process problem when not virus scanning. Please see the Change Log.
24/03/2005 | Released beta version 4.40.7. Please see the Change Log.
20/03/2005 | Released beta version 4.40.6. Please see the Change Log.
12/03/2005 | Released beta version 4.40.4. Please see the Change Log.
12/03/2005 | Released beta version 4.40.4. Please see the Change Log.

05/03/2005

Released beta version 4.40.2. This has the addition of unpacking RAR version 3 archives with the "unrar" command. This helps the "clamavmodule" virus scanner scan RAR 3 archives. It is also used to checked the contents of the archives for banned filenames and filetypes, and for checking to see if the RAR archive is password-protected. This uses 2 new configuration options, which will be installed by upgrade_MailScanner_conf.

05/03/2005 | Released beta version 4.40.1. This has one fix, in the area of identifying silent non-forging viruses. If you could test my fix that would be much appreciated.
02/03/2005 | Released stable version 4.39.6. New settings to control the clamavmodule virus scanner, more improvements to the phishing net, and various bug fixes. See the Change Log for more.
28/02/2005 | Released beta version 4.39.4. Bug fixes, more checks in the phishing net, and fine control over all ClamAV settings when using the clamavmodule scanner. See the Change Log for more details.
17/02/2005 | Released beta version 4.39.1. Mostly a collection of fixes. See the Change Log for more details.

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