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new versions of Spider available
From: Wyman Miles <wm63 () CORNELL EDU>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:47:29 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We've posted two new versions of Spider at http://www.cit.cornell.edu: Linux (Spider 4.0): - - bug fixes in spider_server when listening on a public interface - - bug fixed in regex handling in spider_server Linux spider is a bastardized evolution of a tool originally intended to scour Web sites, so it'll probably be facing a total rewrite shortly. It carries too much convoluted baggage of its haphazard development. Win32 (Spider 2.1.9a): - - major bug fixes in the installer that were causing odd hangs because the ZIP handling library wasn't in place - - installer bug fixes to detect and warn about absence of .NET Framework and need for admin rights - - scan inside ZIP, gzip, bzip2 archives - - search for and scan alternate data streams on NTFS volumes - - improvements to the log viewer including the ability to launch the native app associated with scanned files - - more default file extensions to skip - - improved validation of certain file types before scanning - - optional atime resets after scanning In the absence of major bugs to fix, Spider 2.1.9a is going to be our recommended version. Feature additions are currently being queued for the 2.2 version. We ought to be releasing the VisualStudio project files in a few days. An OSX-native version of Spider is under development. We'll probably be launching a dedicated e-mail list for spider and the general effort of programmatic discovery of confidential data. I'll post that when it happens. Wyman Miles Senior Security Engineer Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (607) 255-8421 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Mulberry PGP Plugin v3.0 Comment: processed by Mulberry PGP Plugin iQA/AwUBRIb1EsRE6QfTb3V0EQK74ACfW9Ud8PbWzEuHHoagblSWsUBC86IAoPpf HWBW/GlX5vkxPyeihcFqb6KD =Jo8h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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