The first release candidate of the long awaited
ClamAV 0.90 is ready for general testing!
The 0.9x series introduces lots of improvements in terms of detection rate and performance, like support for many new packers and decryptors, RAR3 and SIS archives, and a new phishing signatures format that proves to be very effective.
The email decoding has been improved to reduce both the memory requirements and the time taken to process attachments. We have been working hard also on the ClamAV Virus Database: we now have more than 73.000 signatures and we keep on reviewing hundreds of samples everyday.
To cope with the increasing size of the database and with the high frequency of new CVD releases, freshclam now supports scripted updates: only the differences between two releases of the CVD are downloaded. This dramatically reduces traffic on our mirrors and will allow us to release even more updates in the future.
Download the latest release candidate and test the new experimental code (use ./configure—enable-experimental at compile time). We need your feedback!