ClamAV Releases Version 0.84

Barnsley, UK, 30th April 2005

ClamAV has announced release 0.84 of the leading Open Source Anti-Virus
suite.

The new version improves detection of JPEG (MS04-028) based exploits,
introduces
support for TNEF (Winmail.dat) files and new detection mechanisms. Various
bugfixes
and improvements have also been made.

The new features in 0.84 include:

    + JPEG exploit detector now also checks embedded Photoshop thumbnail
images
    + archive meta-data scanner (improves malware detection within encrypted
      archives)
    + support for TNEF (winmail.dat) decoding
    + support for all tar archive formats
    + faster MD5 implementation
    + improved database reloading
    + database updateable false positive eliminator
    + speed improvements

Support for Sensory Networks' NodalCore acceleration in ClamAV will be
available in version 0.90 of the software suite in Q3 2005. For more
information please visit:
	http://www.clamav.net/partners/partner-sn.html
	http://www.sensorynetworks.com/

The importance of ClamAV has been underlined by several 3rd party products
that
have recently been created to use it's technology:

    + hMailServer - open source e-mail server for Microsoft Windows
    + pop3.proxy - proxy server for the POP3 protocol
    + HTTP Anti Virus Proxy
    + SmarterMail Filter - ClamAV based plugin for SmarterMail Mail Server
    + smf-clamd - small & fast virus filter for Sendmail
    + Squidclam - replacement for SquidClamAV-Redirector.py written in C
    + QtClamAVclient - remote clamd client based on the Qt Toolkit
    + qpsmtp - flexible smtpd daemon written in Perl

For further information about ClamAV either contact Nigel Horne,
njh@clamav.net,
(44) 1226 241048 or visit www.clamav.net