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CyberSoft News For July 2005

NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES AVAILABLE TODAY!!!!!

CyberSoft VSTK/P 169 is available TODAY! Do you have the need for speed...VSTK/P Turbo will solve that problem and is accessible TODAY! Virus Updates will be enhanced and updated and provide additional protection. Learn what that means and how it can improve and protect your network RIGHT NOW!

CyberSoft Announces a Price Increase Effective July 1, 2005

CyberSoft will honor the pricing of all Quotes that were issued prior to the effective date of the price increase.

For more information, or to request a Quote, please contact Neil Woodland at (610) 825-4748 or via e-mail at woodland@cyber.com.

The new price schedule may be viewed here

Changes at update.cybersoft.com

For customer security purposes CyberSoft has created username and password protection for downloading VDLs (Virus Definition Updates). This will provide both customer protection and continuous access to updates and upgrades. A link to the latest version provides the best protection available from CyberSoft. Customers will be provided additional information to assist with the status of their account including expiration dates for CyberSoft maintenance contracts. To sign up for this protection, please visit http://update.cybersoft.com/signup.php by August 1, 2005. If there are any questions, please contact CyberSoft at (610) 825-4748 or info@cyber.com.

CyberSoft Announces the Immediate Availability of VSTK/P 169

Here's what's New in VFind Security Toolkit Version 169 (This information applies to VSTK and VSTKP)

Here is a brief summary of the changes for each component in this release of the toolkit. If a component is not listed here, then it is unchanged in this release.

VFind Version 15.4.5

  • The multi-threaded version of VFind, vfind-mt, is available on all supported platforms except the following, which have no or limited support for threads:
    • RedHat Linux 8
    • HPUX 10.20
    • BSDI-x86 4.1
    • OSF 3.2
    • SCO OpenServer 5
    • AIX 4.1 and 4.3 - planned for a future release
    • IRIX 6.2 - planned for a future release
  • Improved the performance of the CVDL white space operator, WP1, for matching white space and punctuation characters.
  • Added --no-smartscan-types (-nosst) command line option to disable the skipping of VDL signatures due to file type restrictions.
  • Added large file support for Linux platforms.
  • Made a fix to the emulator engine to stop emulating when the HLT instruction is encountered.

VFind Library Version 2.1.0

  • The VFind Library has been re-structured. Review the following manual pages for details: vfapi, vf, vfconf, vf_config_defaults, vfsetup, vf_setup_defaults, vf_init, vf_queue, vfstat, vf_wait, vf_cleanup, vf_uad_version.
  • The VFind Library works with gcc 2.95.

UAD Version 3.14.4

  • The text expander detects and decodes encoded data in mail message headers based on RFC 2047, "MIME Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text".
  • A CAB archive expander has been added.
  • UAD identifies GRIB2 (grid weather data) files in JPEG 2000 code stream format.
  • Added large file support for Linux platforms.
  • The gzip expander and the external expander use the base name of the file for the name of the first level component.

CIT Version 4.3.3

  • Improved performance of the CIT dangerfile database check.

MvFilter 5.1.4

  • Bug fix to stop creating a zero-length log file.

Example Scripts:

  • All scripts that use VFind now have the capability of using multi-threaded vfind (vfind-mt). The options to the scripts are:
    • m use multi-threaded vfind
    • p scan starting at this path name (default is /)
    • v'vfind options' command line options for vfind
    • u'uad options' command line options for uad
    • c'cit options' command line options for cit

New Platforms

  • IBM AIX 4.3 (for AIX 4.3 and above)
  • SUSE Linux
    RedHat Linux ES 3
  • RedHat Linux AS 2.1
  • SCO OpenServer 5 (re-established support for this platform)

CyberSoft Releases Two New Products - VSTK Turbo and VSTKP Turbo

CyberSoft announces the availability of VSTK Turbo and VSTKP Turbo along with the release of VSTK/P 169. VSTK/P Turbo provides user applications, virus scanning and detection services at a higher rate of speed by utilizing a daemon process.

Current VSTK/P users may purchase the Turbo upgrade, which will convert their VSTK and VSTKP licenses to VSTK Turbo and VSTKP Turbo licenses.

CyberSoft Releases Avatar as a Standalone Product

The Avatar product as a standalone product is NOW available. Avatar maintains the system Baseline Configuration by executing system security policies that act as an intrusion detection and response system. The most important function of Avatar is response. If the system Baseline Configuration is modified for any reason, it will be detected by Avatar and returned to the correct Baseline Configuration.

Avatar combined with VSTK is our VSTKP product. Current VSTK customers may purchase the Avatar upgrade, which will convert their VSTK licenses to VSTKP licenses.

CyberSoft Training Manuals Available Online for Free Download

CyberSoft has made the following Training Manuals available in a downloadable pdf format:

Volume 1: Quick Training Handbook for the VFind Security ToolKit(s).

Volume 2: Pattern Matching Using VFind and the CVDL Language (includes CVDL Reference Chart).

You can go to www.cybersoft.com/training/index.shtml and click on the Training Manual you wish to Download.

CyberSoft will be adding additional Training Manuals online in the near future.

Important Message to All VSTK/P Users

Please read this important message concerning virus signatures!

As virus writers push the envelope and create new methods for hiding the presence of their viruses, it becomes more difficult to develop signatures to detect those viruses and still maintain 100% backward compatibility with earlier versions of VSTK and VSTKP.

In order to provide our customers who use the latest version of VSTK/VSTKP with the highest level of protection possible, we have added two new VDL sets that require at least VSTK/VSTKP version 166 (VFind version 13.11.3) and another two that require at least VSTK/VSTKP version 168 or 169 (VFind version 15.1.0). In order to activate these new VDL sets, you will have to download a replacement vdl.list file and replace the one included in the TAR file every time you update.

USE OF EITHER OF THESE FILES IN EARLIER VERSIONS WILL CAUSE ERRORS!

CYBERSOFT STRONGLY RECOMMENDS YOU UPGRADE TO THE LATEST VERSION OF VSTK/VSTKP TO ACHIEVE THE MAXIMUM LEVEL OF PROTECTION. Please note that this upgrade is free as part of a current Maintenance & Support contract.

Please contact Neil Woodland for information on upgrading at 610-825-4748 or woodland@cyber.com

To enable these these new VDL sets and download the latest Virus Definitions. Please go to http://update.cyber.com

For customers using the vdlupdate script to download and install the latest updates, we have updated the script to automaticaly download the updated vdl.list file. Follow these steps to update your copy of the script:

  1. Go to http://update.cyber.com and download vdlupdate.tar
  2. cd to VSTK_HOME (this is usually /opt/vstk but your local installation may be different)
  3. tar -xf vdlupdate.tar

This should replace bin/vdlupdate with a new copy that is 4770 bytes long with a date of April 4, 2005 and time of 14:10. The MD5 checksum is 883146a4bdcc18c5c3b6bc63b75b085a

This can be verified by executing the following command from VSTK_HOME: bin/cit bin/vdlupdate

IF YOU ARE USING A VERSION OF VSTK OR VSTKP OLDER THAN 166, DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR USE THIS VERSION OF vdlupdate.

IF YOU ARE USING VERSION 166 OR 167 OF VSTK OR VSTKP, COMMENT OUT LINE 47 IN THE SCRIPT AND UNCOMMENT LINE 44.
Line No.
39 #
40 # New vdl.list files to activate advance features
41 #
42
43 # Uncomment this line for VSTK/VSTKP versions 166 & 167
44 #new_vdl_list="http//update.cybersoft.com/166-167/vdl.list”
45
46 # Uncomment this line for VSTK/VSTKP versions 168 and above
47 new_vdl_list="http//update.cybersoft.com/168+/vdl.list"
48
49 # Uncomment this line to turn on downloading of the new
50 # vdl.list file
51 download_vdl_list=1



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