FYI: F-Prot 3.14d Released

Changes in version 3.14d

Version 3.14d changes some defaults

The default of the /ARCHIVE switch is now to scan only "one level deep"
into archives, that is archives within archives will not be scanned.
The default behavior can be changed with /ARCHIVE=n, where "n" is the
desired scanning depth, for example /ARCHIVE=3 will scan archives within
archives within archives.

The reason for this change is to prevent the scanner from taking
unacceptably long to scan so-called "zip bombs", some of which use over
40 levels of archives, or include tens of thousands of archives nested
within each other.

The /SERVER switch is a new addition. It will put F-PROT in mail server
mode, enabling some heuristics which are only enabled by default in the
mail server versions (Linux and others) and the fpcmd program (Windows
command-line version of F-PROT). Those heuristics will for example
complain about encrypted executable files within archives.

The total number of viruses and Trojans that are detected with version
3.14d is somewhere over 111200.

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Jeff Setaro
jasetaro <at> mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
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