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[kde-announce] Announcement: KlamAV 0.30.1

From:  Robert Hogan <robert-AT-roberthogan.net>
To:  kde-announce <kde-announce-AT-kde.org>
Subject:  [kde-announce] Announcement: KlamAV 0.30.1
Date:  Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:48:14 +0200

Name: KlamAV
Version: 0.30.1
Type: Security
Depend: KDE 3.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://klamav.sf.net
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12388

Description:
 KlamAV brings ClamAV functionality to the KDE
desktop user.
 In other words, it's a front-end.

Features include support for:

- On Access Scanning.
- Manual Scanning. 
- Context-Menu Scanning
- Quarantine Management.
- Downloading updates
- *Automatic Software updates (ClamAV and KlamAV) 
- Mail Scanning (KMail and Ximian Evolution)
- Automated Compilation and Installation
- dazuko-2.0.6 pre-packaged
- Virus Browser
- Scan Scheduler
-  German/Russian/Portugese/Spanish/Polish
Translations

Changelog:
 13/09/05
--------
* Addresses some of the compiilation issues
encountered in 0.30.

16/08/05
--------
* Klammail now writes temp files to the temp
directory.

07/08/05
--------
* KlamAV is now installed via Arkollon ( (c) David
Sansome)
* KlamAV will now upgrade outdated installations
of ClamAV by automagically downloading,
  compiling and installing the latest version.
* KlamAV will now upgrade outdated installations
of itself by automagically downloading,
  compiling and installing the latest version.
* Some bugfixes.


21/07/05
--------
* Spanish translation added (Carlos A. Lozano).

14/07/05
--------
* Scheduler added. Thank you KCron.
* German translation added (Marc Hansen).
* Complete Brazilian Portugese translations added
(rfsalomon).

02/07/05
--------
* Added Russian (Vitaly Lipatov), Italian (anon)
and Brazilian Portugese (rfsalomon) translations.

01/05/05
--------
* Can now scan multiple directories when called
from the right-click menu in Konqueror. Will also
use existing
  instance of KlamAV if KlamAV is already running.
* Couple of small bugfixes.


28/04/2005
----------
* !!Serious bug fix to auto-scanning. Since KDE3.4
preceding slashes had been added to include and
exclude paths. This   was causing dazuko to ignore
those paths for scanning. Please upgrade.!!

09/04/2005
----------
* Added Virus Browser.

18/03/2005
----------
* Fixed misconfiguration of auto-scanning
* Fixed automatic rectification of deleted virus
database

17/03/2005
----------
* Fixes to manual scanning dialog

14/03/2005
----------
* Added options dialog for manual scanning.
* Added options dialog for on-access scanning.
* Added customized version of klamd for
create/modified on-access scanning
[EXPERIMENTAL!!]

06/03/2005
----------
* Change the way klammail is built.
* Auto-update shows time of last update check.

21/02/2005
----------
* Auto-Scan and Auto-Update inform user if
background processes killed unexpectedly
* Added all known paths to environment when
lsmod,modprobe and clamd are run.

11/02/2005
----------
* Fix enable/disable options when application
restored
* Fix incompatibile int type on libclamav (thanks
to Mr Souissi  and anon).

07/02/2005
----------
* Enable/Disable auto-updates from system tray
menu



06/02/2005
----------
* Tray icon indicates whether automatic
database-updates daemon is running in background
* Results of manual scan show status of detected
files
* Can now select individual/multiple items in
results of manual scan and quarantine them by
right-clicking


31/01/2005
----------
* Add columns to scan and quarantine interface
* Allow multiple selection of entries in
quarantine interface

23/01/2005
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* Add on-execute option to auto-scan interface.
* Fix scanning from service menu.

16/01/2005
----------
* When first run create default database in
~/.klamav/database and offer to download the
latest version.

15/01/2005
----------
* allow user to specify an update directory and
use it as virusdb without having to update first
* explicit error messages from clamscan
* check for successful load of dazuko module when
launching autoscanning process (clamd)
* better clamav installation checking at install
time
* klamav now links against libclamav for one or
two minor things

12/01/2005
----------

* bug fixed: checking for creation of quarantine
folder on first run (Thanks to Balazs Melikant )
* bug partially fixed: still have
'/usr/local/share/clamav' as hardcoded update
directory but fixed bug that prevented user from
using current update directory . (Thanks to Balazs
Melikant )

01/01/2005
----------
* Corrected error message when filename already
exists in quarantine (thanks to pcxz )

31/12/2004
----------
* Background updates now work properly
* Fixed manual-scan's handling of filenames with
'FOUND' string.
* Auto-scan process gets notified of database
updates

30/12/2004
----------
* Create default quarantine directory as
$HOME/.klamav/quarantine. Patch by Przemyslaw
Maciag .
* Check more often for existence of quarantine
directory.
* Reformatted infection message from
auto-scanning.

29/12/2004
----------
* Klammail now displays a dialog when it finds
infected mail.
* Installation process checks a few things in your
clamav installation.
* dazuko is installed in /lib/modules// .

23/12/2004
----------

* No longer packaged with ClamAV, everything works
with standard clamav distribution.
* Improved filename handling of infected files.
* improved quarantine handling
* klammail now knows where your current virus
database is

14/10/2004
----------
* Mail Scanning much faster (klammail now uses
clamd to scan and will start clamd if it is not
already up and running).
* Some enhancements to the klamscan interface
(thanks to malakai  for his suggestions).
* Less dirty file management when moving files in
and out of quarantine. (Using KDE's KIO interface
instead of 'mv' &c.)


10/10/2004
----------
* Problem in quarantine management leading to file
loss when disk is full corrected. (Thanks (and
apologies) to"Bobby Z." ).


23/09/2004
----------
* Fixed installation of icons
* Fixed klammail scanning
* Auto-Scan can now be stopped and started from
the system tray
* Fixed auto-scan resumption between sessions

13/09/2004
----------
* Fixed session management of hiding/displaying
windows when docked
* Fixed bug in Kmail configuration (says you're
already set up when you're not).
* Fixed dazuko setup in installation script
* Fixed compilation of klammail


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