As of yesterday, Linux Client and Server Security 5.30 is no longer a supported version. This was a nice release, at least from our perspective. It introduced several new and improved features:

• Scanning core placed in its own rpm package, the f-secure-security-platform.
• The core introduced riskware scanning.
• Database updates abandoned the old HTTP download client and replaced it with Automatic Update Agent. AUA is a robust background daemon with advanced binary diff capabilities that save bandwidth.
• We took into use syscall hooking in the dazuko driver for Linux 2.6 kernels. This made it possible to provide scan-on-close functionality and support Red Hat kernels. Earlier versions required Red Hat customers to recompile a kernel with capability as a module.
• Firewall rules wizard was introduced in the web user interface.
• Support for servers running Samba. (That was easy. We just tested that realtime protection works with Samba.)
• We shipped a guide for integrating with popular mail transport agent software.

Today, this fine release is history. We encourage everyone to upgrade to Client or Server Security 5.52. You will get:

• Support for 64 bit Linux distributions.
• Command-line-only installation mode for customers who don’t need anything else.
• Rock-solid stability. We’ve worked very hard to eliminate any possibility for system hangs and fixed lots of bugs.

This entry was posted by sti on Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 at 7:04 am.