[Mimedefang] Summary of new Vexira

Cormack, Ken kcormack at acs.roadway.com
Wed Feb 18 13:00:10 EST 2004


David,

Below is a snippet of an email we just received about an update to Vexira,
including descriptions of some new command-line switches you might be
interested in incorporating into the default commandline you pass to Vexira,
from within MIMEDefang.

Ken

General
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1. Detects other malware types, such as dialers, games, jokes and 
possible malicious softare using the "DetectDialer", "DetectJoke", 
"DetectGame", "DetectPMS" directives in vexira.conf  

2. Pack libary updated to support mailboxes and "exploding 
archives" (aka mailbombs)

3. More intense selfcheck on startup

Command Line Scanner
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1. exclude files or paths with "--exclude=" argument
2. allow warnings to be handled as alerts with "--warnings-as-
alerts" argument 
3. send emails when alerts are found using the "--log-email=" 
argument 
4. scan mbox files with "--scan-in-mbox" argument 
5. set max archive size and recursion with "--archive-max-size=" 
and "--archive-max-recursion" arguments 
6. detect other types, such as dialers, games, jokes and possible 
malicious software using the "--with-dialer" "--with-game" "--with-
joke" "--with-pm" arguments, or you can detect all types with the "--
alltype" argument

Guard
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1. run external program with each alert using the "ExternalProgram"
directive in vaguard.conf
2. supports Dazuko 2.0
3. file cache integrated into vexira binary (no longer a separate
vexira-fc file)
4. files are backed up before attempting to repair
5. support for file including/excluding
6. support for filenames of any length added

Updater
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1. keep backups after each update using the 
"UpdaterKeepBackups" directive in vexira.conf
2. supports chunked HTTP/1.1 download formats



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