## 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 4.44 1st August 2005 ## Contents E-Mail "Phishing" Fraud! Was your mail rejected by MailScanner? News On-line stores - new products from Germany! MailScanner Users' Comments and Testimonials Guest Book A few MailScanner users 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 | ## Buy the book! New: Updated August 2005

## News

25/08/2005 | Released beta version 4.45.1. You can now quarantine all modified message bodies, regardless of how they were modified. See the Change Log for a list of all the fixes and new features.
13/08/2005 | Black shirts are finally available! I have set up a new on-line store based in Germany that sells some new products with a new version of the MailScanner logo on them. These include a bargain-priced T-shirt, and all the products have much lower delivery costs in Europe and neighbouring countries. The luxury embroidered Polo shirts are very good indeed, I strongly recommend them.
8/08/2005 | The newly updated version of the MailScanner Book is now available for purchase from the MailScanner web site. This has been updated to include all the new features and options up to and including the August 2005 version 4.44. There are 30 pages of new content. If you have the previous edition, you can get a PDF file of the differences or just buy the new version.
3/08/2005 | Released stable version 4.44.6-2. Resolved dependency problems in earlier 4.44 releases. See the Change Log for more details.
1/08/2005 | Released stable version 4.44.6. "Scan Messages" setting added to totally disable all scanning and processing of messages, designed to be used with a ruleset. Various other minor improvements and fixes, including solutions to Postfix problems. See the Change Log for more details.
15/07/2005 | Released beta version 4.44.3. "Scan Messages" setting added to totally disable all scanning and processing of messages, designed to be used with a ruleset. See the Change Log for more details.
11/07/2005 | Released beta version 4.44.2. Fixed bugs in the reporting and scoring of the Custom Spam Scanner. C source code of sample program now also supplied. See the Change Log for more details.
5/07/2005 | Released beta version 4.44.1. Added checks for lack of disk space, an optimisation and a couple of minor bugfixes. See the Change Log for more details.
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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