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 Installing BitDefender Security for Mail Servers on Ubuntu 7.10 or newer
Ubuntu 7.10 (code name "Gutsy Gibbon") is the first Debian-based distribution to use a modified version of the package management tool dpkg, which queues all ldconfig calls to be ran after installing a batch of packages. In the previous versions, all ldconfig calls were ran immediately. BitDefender packages run ldconfig during the configuration stage and rely on its immediate effects.

Therefore, starting with Ubuntu 7.10, trying to set up BitDefender Security for Mail Servers or BitDefender Security for Samba version 2.1-x (and earlier) will result in an install problem, because the 2.1-x (and earlier) version doesn't "know" about the new trigger mechanism used by Ubuntu's dpkg.

 Vulnerability fixed in BitDefender Update Server
An issue has been identified in a component of BitDefender update server (CVE-2008-0396). Successful exploit of the vulnerability may allow read access to files outside of the application's root directory with named privileges.

This issue only affects customers hosting their own internal BitDefender Update server. Customers updating directly from BitDefender are not affected. Additionally, this issue does not affect any Consumer product such as BitDefender Total Security, BitDefender Internet Security or BitDefender Antivirus.

The risk level of this vulnerability is low and at this moment no known malicious exploit has been observed in the wild.

 Installation errors on Fedora Core systems

A message similar to the following one may appear while installing BitDefender on a Fedora Core system:

error: Failed dependencies:

libstdc++.so.5 is needed by BitDefender-common-2.x-x.i586
libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) is needed by BitDefender-common-2.x-x.i586
libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by BitDefender-common-2.x-x.i586
libstdc++.so.5 is needed by BitDefender-mail-2.x-x.i586
libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) is needed by BitDefender-mail-2.x-x.i586
libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by BitDefender-mail-2.x-x.i586

 What's new in patch v2.4.227 for BitDefender Security for Windows Servers
The current document describes patch 2.4.227 available for BitDefender Security for Windows Servers released on December 13th, 2007.

 Troubleshooting clients that appear as not available
The current document presents some troubleshooting steps to be followed, should you run into one of the following situations:

• The management console displays N/A into the Antivirus Status section;
• The management console displays N/A into all the client columns.

 How to configure the radmin module
The current article presents how to configure and use the radmin module present in BitDefender Security for Mail Servers (Linux). In this article we assume that the module has already been installed.

 How to upgrade to the latest version of BitDefender Security for Windows Servers
The present article describes how to upgrade your BitDefender Security for Exchange or BitDefender Security for Mail Servers (Windows) suite to the latest version.

 How to update from a local update server

Starting with version 2.4 BitDefender Security for Windows Servers checks the integrity of the updates it downloads from the update server. Thus, when updating from a local BitDefender Update Server the update process might fail.

The present document explains how to configure BitDefender Security for Windows Servers to update from a local update server.

 Error message: Could not get HTTP host from server
The current document describes the Could not get HTTP host from server error message reporter by BitDefender Security for ISA Servers.

 How to configure BitDefender Security for File Servers
The current document presents the main guidelines in terms of configuring BitDefender Security for File Servers.