WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: WGRD), a leading provider of network security solutions worldwide, announced WatchGuard Gateway AntiVirus for E-mail for the Firebox X line of security appliances. The unique deep application inspection capability integrated into WatchGuard security appliances examines traffic for protocol anomalies to determine if the content is malicious and blocks threats before they reach the anti-virus engine to avoid unnecessary processing overhead. If no threat is detected, the data is passed to ClamAV where it is analysed for viral content. Visit http://www.watchguard.com/press/releases/wg294.asp for more information. (0 comments)

Since releasing the new version of Clam AntiVirus, we have been continuously receiving very good opinions on its stability and efficiency.
Our users appreciate advanced mechanisms that protect against new type of malware, including image and HTML exploits, and phishing attacks as well.
Again, we encourage users of the older versions to update. (0 comments)

We are seeing a lot of useless traffic on our mirror servers.
It looks like there are many broken freshclam clients still running.

Once again, we urge you to upgrade to ClamAV 0.80 and take advantage of the new DNSDatabaseInfo option, which allows to check for a new version of the database with a single DNS query. Verify that your freshclam.conf contains:

DNSDatabaseInfo current.cvd.clamav.net

Check out the doc for more info.

Unless you are using DNSDatabaseInfo, please keep the check frequency below once per hour.

1) if you run freshclam from crontab, check that you have an entry like the following:

N * * * * /usr/local/bin/freshclam—quiet

where N is a random integer between 3 and 57 and is not a multiple of 10.

Do NOT use anything like this:

* * * * * /usr/local/bin/freshclam—quiet
*/N * * * * /usr/local/bin/freshclam—quiet

2) if you run freshclam from crontab, make sure that you are
not using the -d flag (see the manpage for more info).

Abusing clients will be added to a black list and won’t be able to
download our database anymore. (53 comments)

Many users are afraid of upgrading ClamAV because they fear they could break their mail system.
Writing an extensive guide about all the possible problems one may encounter during the process would require a big effort. So we decided to go for a Wiki-style doc: you can find it at http://wiki.clamav.net .
We hope that experienced users will contribute stuff, especially to http://wiki.clamav.net/index.php/UpgradeInstructions .
You can edit any page except the Home Page. (0 comments)