Release notes for Symantec Scan Engine 5.2
Question/Issue:
This document contains the release notes for Symantec Scan Engine 5.2 in-line releases.
Solution:
Symantec Scan Engine 5.2.5
Symptom: Notification message gets garbled for a Japanese email with infected ZIP container.
Solution: Fixed.
Symptom: Symantec Scan Engine support for ZIP with Unicode file names.
Solution: Fixed.
Symptom: Symantec Scan Engine support for WinZip's Enhanced Deflate compression algorithm.
Solution: Fixed.
Symptom: Certain .zip files cause Decomposer Error 40 when scanned with Symantec Scan Engine.
Solution: Fixed.
Symptom: Need Boolean configuration control variable to suppress the “Unknown Algorithm” errors to WARNING level.
Solution: Fixed.
Symptom: Symantec Scan Engine crashes on a specific message with RAR.
Solution: Fixed.
Enhancements:
- Added Symantec Scan Engine support for JRE 1.6 family.
- Added Symantec Scan Engine support for SUSE Linux 10 (64-bit, English).
- Added Java Command Line scanner as a part of Symantec Scan Engine installable.
Symantec Scan Engine 5.2.4
Symptom: When in RPC mode, Symantec Scan Engine fails to delete the .tmp files that are created in the Temp directory for files that cause container limit violations.
Solution: Fixed.
Symptom: When in RPC mode, Symantec Scan Engine terminates the original scan request from the NetApp Filer if the scanned file is large and has a long file path.
Solution: Fixed.
Symptom: When using FILEMOD request, Symantec Scan Engine fails to delete the infected files that have file path longer than 255 bytes.
Solution: Fixed.
Support on New Platforms:
Symantec Scan Engine 5.2.4 is now supported on the following Windows Operating Systems in addition to the existing ones.
- Windows Server 2008 (32-bit)
- Windows Server 2008 (64-bit)
- Windows Server 2003 (64-bit)
Note: Symantec Scan Engine runs as a 32-bit process on 64-bit platforms.
Symantec Scan Engine 5.2.3
Symptom: The symcscan process consumes all CPU resources even without any processing.
Solution: Fixed.
Symptom: Symantec Scan Engine 5.2 has high CPU usage on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 even when it is not scanning any files.
Solution: Fixed.
Symptom: Symantec Scan Engine corrupts the notification message inside the email due to DBCS (Japanese, Turkish, German, etc.) file name.
Solution: Fixed.
Symptom: Enhancement requested for providing a signed .NET dll (symcsmsnetapi.dll) in the SDK.
Solution: The .NET SDK library is now digitally signed.
Symantec Scan Engine 5.2.2
Symptom: Enhancement request to change the backlog size.
Solution: Fixed.
Symptom: Symantec Scan Engine requests an incorrect path from the Filer when the path contains a filename with a double byte character "Ş".
Solution: Fixed.
Symptom: Enhancement request for a feature to insert custom alert message into original mail.
Solution: A category-3 parameter is introduced to get location of file containing customized notification message.
Symptom: Configure the location of alert message in Symantec Scan Engine so that it shows up at the top of the email.
Solution: A Boolean parameter "NotificationTextAtTop" is introduced in policy.xml file. Setting its value to “true” or “false” will place the notification text at the top or bottom of the email, respectively.
Symantec Scan Engine 5.2.1
Symptom: Symantec Scan Engine fails to scan files with certain foreign characters in the file name.
Solution: Fixed.
Symantec Scan Engine 5.2
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Document ID: 2008040318154254
Last Modified: 07/23/2009
Date Created: 04/03/2008
Product(s): Symantec Scan Engine 5.2
Release(s): SSE 5.2
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