You can also download it from here.

The new build can be downloaded from here. The first user guide draft can also be downloaded from here.

Changelog:

• added first Radmin (web based console) version;
• user guide: first version ready (please note that is incomplete – there are still things to be added);
• added new product templates;
• windows update is not working properly when the frontend is enabled (it will be fixed in the next version);
• solved a memory leak bug;
• changed proxy-setup.sh in order to make it more user friendly;
• changed the proxy bind port from 10080 to 9092;
• removed the kernel warning “task [..] blocked for more than 120 seconds”;
• fixed some other minor bugs.

Many thanks go to those who registered on our beta site and reported problems.

• real time scanning of Internet traffic;
• URL filtering;
• content-type and method filtering;
• header filtering;
• group security policies;
• user notifications;
• reports and statistics.

It can work standalone or in conjunction with an HTTP proxy such as Squid. This beta version is available here, for Linux x86.

The campaign will be finished at the mid of August and the prizes will be:

• 1st place : one 16GB iPod Touch;
• 2nd place : one year license of a Windows/Linux/FreeBSD business solution, for 35 users;
• 3rd place  : one of ten copies of BitDefender Desktop solutions (1 year license for Total Security, Internet Security or Antivirus – at choice).

The purpose of this beta campaign is to validate that BitDefender for HTTP Proxy functions properly and to gather potential new features from testers.

ubuntu 8.04 i386 (md5: da05728ddf69756f43ad53f69429e7a3)

ubuntu 8.10 amd64 (md5: 71b343695e50b803f07333c43e48fa4a)

ubuntu 9.04 i386 (md5: 579c3da801907fe38ec86bdc853023c5)

ubuntu 9.04 amd64 (md5: 5f8e38f8843aa6aa66ee3572051231bd)

ubuntu 9.10 i386 (md5: 6a35b1a145c8a7897ca8c2e4a2e92f26)

openSUSE 11.1 i586 (md5: b0315a22cda8e44cde38cb9fd04ba01b) (konqueror)

fedora 11 i586 (md5: ea679321cbef1d6f9de13982620bb4e4)

If none of the packages above is good for you, drop us an email with your distribution, version and architecture (x86 or amd64) and we’ll see if we can build one for you too.

UPDATE: I have inserted the KDE4 Konqueror extension here (openSUSE) to avoid creating a new article just for it.

First, when BitDefender is installed, the MTA with which you want to integrate with must be CommuniGate Pro. If such a product is already installed on the server, the BitDefender installer will automatically detect it and display it as default option for MTA integration.

If BitDefender is already installed and integrated with another MTA, for example Sendmail, you can change it by disabling the milter integration and activating the CommuniGate Pro one:

# ./bdsafe agent disable milter
# ./bdsafe agent enable cgate
# cd /opt/BitDefender/bin

The second step is to add some lines in the Mail.settings file of the CommuniGate Pro server, located in /var/CommuniGate/Settings.

Use your favorite editor to edit the Main.settings file (do not forget to make a backup of it first, in case something goes wrong). Add the following lines somewhere in the configuration file, between the first ‘{’ and the last ‘}’:

ExternalFilters = (
    {
        Enabled = YES;
        LogLevel = 5;
        Name = BitDefender;
        ProgramName = "/opt/BitDefender/bin/bdcgated";
        RestartPause = 1m;
        Timeout = 2m;
    }
);

After this, modify the Rules.settings file (again, make a backup first) and add a rule for the BitDefender filter:

(
    5,
    BitDefender,
    (("Message Size", "greater than", 1)),
    ((ExternalFilter, BitDefender))
)

Another way and the recommended one to enable the BitDefender integration, is to use the CommuniGate management web interface (by default it listens on http://<your-host>:8010):

1. go to Settings → General (you will be required to login);

2. go to the Helpers tab and look at Content Filtering, for the CommuniGate Pro version;

3. do the following actions:

3.1. check the Use Filter box;

3.2. enter BitDefender in the text box;

3.3. set the Log list to Problems;

3.4. set Timeout to 2 minutes

In the Program Path, enter /opt/BitDefender/bin/bdcgated. For CommuniGate Pro version 5 and above, the method is slightly different:

3.1. enable the filter using the drop-down combo box;

3.2. enter BitDefender in the corresponding text box;

3.3. set the Log Level to Problems;

3.4. set Timeout to 2 minutes;

3.5. in the Program Path text box, enter /opt/BitDefender/bin/bdcgated;

3.6. set Auto-Restart to 5 seconds;

3.7. press Update;

4. go to the Settings → Mail → Rules tab;

5. enter BitDefender and press Create New or Add Rule, in version 5;

6. press the Edit button next to the BitDefender filter. Do the following:

6.1. look at the Data list and set it to Message Size;

6.2. set Operation to greater than;

6.3. set Parameter to 1;

6.4. look at the Action list and set it to External Filter;

6.5. enter BitDefender in the Parameters box;

6.6. press Update;

7. restart the BitDefender services;

8. restart the CommuniGate Pro server.

BitDefender will now start scanning your incoming messages.

With the latest update, BitDefender Security for Mail Servers can provide some additional information to CommuniGate Pro server, in order to mark spam messages and to deliver them in the designated folder (Junk), depending on the digital range bar score from the email headers. In order to enable this feature, do the following:

# cd /opt/BitDefender/bin

# ./bdsafe group configure mygroup antispam cgatecompat Y

# ./bdsafe reloadsettings

Change mygroup with the name of your group. If you have a default installation, mygroup is default (bdsafe group configure default antispam cgatecompat Y).

From this moment on, BitDefender will add a new header, which looks something like this: X-Junk-Score: 92 [XXXX]. The number of X-s is given by the value of the spam level, so the digital score bar range will look like this:

0  []
1-39  [X]
40-80  [XX]
81-90  [XXX]
91-95  [XXXX]
96-99  [XXXXX]
100  [XXXXXX]

If the email is not spam, the range is ‘0 []‘, if the value increases, the range bar will do the same, ‘1-39 [X]‘ and so on.

The administrator of the CommuniGate Pro server can set the actions for this kind of emails. From Settings->Users->Domains, the Junk Mail control can set the action for spam e-mails. For example, High probability->Store in junk, Medium probability->Mark as Junk, Low priority->Mark as junk.

If the user receives an e-mail that is marked as spam (X-Junk-Score: 100 [XXXXXX]), this mail will be moved in the Junk directory. Using this header, the administrator of the CommuniGate Pro server can filter the e-mails delivered to the users.

For more information, read the BitDefender user guide and this chapter on CommuniGate Server flags.

For example, in Fedora Core, download the src.rpm file from the repository and install it with:

# rpm -ivh samba-3.0.24.src.rpm

If the install is OK, go to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and rebuild the src.rpm file:

# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
# rpmbuild -bc samba.spec

It is possible you will need some more packages (libacl-devel, cups-devel, gnutls-devel, autoconf, libtool etc.) to rebuild the src.rpm package. If so, use the distro way to install the missing packages.

The other way is to get the latest source tarball from the Samba web site.

The next step is to compile the BitDefender vfs module. Go to /opt/BitDefender/var/src and unpack the BitDefender-Samba-vfs.tar.gz file using:

# tar -xvf BitDefender-Samba-vfs.tar.gz

To compile the vfs, run in a console:

# ./configure --with-samba-source=samba_source_directory

samba-source_directory is /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/samba-3.0.24 if the src.rpm is used, or it can be the path to the Samba sources from the tar.gz file. If there are no error messages, type:

# make && make install

By default the vfs file bdvfs3.so is installed in /usr/lib/samba/vfs. This path can be changed by setting the ‘–with-install-dir’ parameter in the configure command.

The BitDefender Samba vfs module is activated/deactivated on a per-share basis. You can check it’s status by running the following command:

# bdsafe samba vfs

The output will be something like this:

global
    Path           :
    VFS            : disabled

public
    Path           : /data/500GB/public/
    VFS            : disabled

To enable the BitDefender vfs for the public share, run:

# bdsafe samba vfs enable public

To check the status of the public share, type:

# bdsafe samba vfs status public

The output will look like this:

public
    Path           : /data/500GB/public/
    VFS            : enabled
    Failure action : (default)
    Actions:
        On infected  : (default)
        On suspected : (default)
        On riskware  : (default)

To test if the BitDefender vfs for Samba is working, try to copy the EICAR test file from a windows machine into the public share. If it’s working, in the /opt/BitDefender/var/log/virus.log file, a new entry will appear and the test file will be deleted from the public share:

“05/06/2009 11:15:03 BDFILED MALWARE: /data/500GB/public/eicar.com (/data/500GB/public/eicar.com), malware: EICAR-Test-File (not a virus), status: Infected, action: Deleted (disinfect, delete, deny)”

Now your share is protected against malware by BitDefender.

For more information about the BitDefender vfs module, please read the INSTALL.samba-vfs file from your BitDefender installation.

We also added a new feature that improves the functionality of the Rescue CD. You will notice, in the boot menu list, a new entry: Start Knoppix in console mode. This will run the image in text mode and, after booting, the mounted partitions will be scanned. In order to do this, we built a simple dialog script, which is a bdscan wrapper. This script will update the virus signatures, scan your mounted partitions (ntfs, vfat, ext3 etc.) and finally display the scan log. The default action on infected items is disinfect, so if your hard disk contains infected items, the bdscan-dialog will disinfect those files automatically. Also, if for some reason the X window system is not starting, it is recommended that you choose this new boot option.

The iso download location is http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/

More information about the BitDefender Rescue CD can be found here.