ClamTk is a graphical frontend for Clam Antivirus. It is designed to be a lightweight, easy-to-use, point-and-click virus scanner.

Changes: This release replaces hal with udev and contains minor code cleanup as well as updated language files.

Licenses: Artistic

From the Clash of the Titans dept.:
Oracle issued a press release late Thursday saying it has filed suit against Google for infringing on copyrights and patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired along with Sun Microsystems earlier this year. The terse release claimed Google "knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property."

...Oracle also noted the interlocking history between Google and Java in its complaint, noting that "Google has been aware of Sun's patent portfolio, including the patents at issue, since the middle of this decade, when Google hired certain former Sun Java engineers."

From the Neutral Zone dept.:

On Monday, Google and Verizon proposed a new legislative framework for net neutrality. Reaction to the proposal has been swift and, for the most part, highly critical. While we agree with many aspects of that criticism, we are interested in the framework's attempt to grapple with the Trojan Horse problem. The proposed solution: a narrow grant of power to the FCC to enforce neutrality within carefully specified parameters. While this solution is not without its own substantial dangers, we think it deserves to be considered further if Congress decides to legislate.

Unfortunately, the same document that proposed this intriguing idea also included some really terrible ideas. It carves out exemptions from neutrality requirements for so-called "unlawful" content, for wireless services, and for very vaguely-defined "additional online services." The definition of "reasonable network management" is also problematically vague. As many, many, many have already pointed out, these exemptions threaten to completely undermine the stated goal of neutrality.

From the Front Door dept.:
Kaspersky has announced the first Android Trojan. The new malicious program penetrates smartphones running Android in the guise of a harmless media player application.

From the Paranoid dept.:
Just uploaded to the Ubuntu Lucid repository for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (and we imagine it will appear shortly in Maverick too for Ubuntu 10.10) is a new package called canonical-census, which marks its initial release. Curious about what this package provides, we did some digging and found it's for tracking Ubuntu installations by sending an "I am alive" ping to Canonical on a daily basis.

From the Pondering the Google Navel dept.:
A confidential, seven-page Google Inc. "vision statement" shows the information-age giant in a deep round of soul-searching over a basic question: How far should it go in profiting from its crown jewels—the vast trove of data it possesses about people's activities?

Should it tap more of what it knows about Gmail users? Should it build a vast "trading platform" for buying and selling Web data? Should it let people pay to not see any ads at all?

From the Google Search(ed) dept.:
The South Korean police raided the offices of Google Korea on Tuesday as part of an investigation into whether the company illegally collected and stored personal wireless data.

The U.S. search and advertising titan is already facing lawsuits and investigations in several countries in connection with private wireless data collected by its “Street View� cars. Street View, which was first launched in 2006, allows users to view panoramic street scenes on Google Maps and take a virtual walk through cities.

LibESMTP is a library to manage posting (or submission of) electronic mail using SMTP to a preconfigured Mail Transport Agent (MTA) such as Exim. It may be used as part of a Mail User Agent (MUA) or another program that must be able to post electronic mail but where mail functionality is not the program's primary purpose. LibESMTP is not intended to be used as part of a program that implements a Mail Transport Agent.

Changes: A certificate domain name comparison bug when wildcards are used was fixed. A subjectAltName comparison failure no longer falls back to commonName, which is now used only when subjectAltName is not present. The auto* file was tweaked for the current versions of these tools.

Release Tags: Stable, Minor feature enhancements

Tags: Communications, Email, Software Development, Libraries

Licenses: LGPL

Sqlkit provides a GUI named sqledit to edit data in a database, as well as a package (sqlkit) in PyGtk. Sqledit (the application) can be run from the command line with arguments and will pop directly into the table/mask of the data, or without arguments and will present an input mask to write the database URL. Sqlkit (the Python package) provides SqlMask and SqlTable, two widgets for editing database data. It is meant to be used as a base for database desktop applications.

Changes: Many new features were introduced, along with the latest version of SQLAlchemy. Read-only fields computed from other fields are now supported. The filter panel output is completely configurable. Local sort was added, making it possible to sort related fields in complex masks. Tables can now be split in different views. Many bugs have been fixed.

Release Tags: Major feature enhancements

Tags: Database, API, Front-Ends

Licenses: GPLv3

SquidClamAv is a dedicated ClamAV antivirus redirector for Squid. It provides fine control over which files should be scanned. It is easy to install and works even with heavy Squid access.

Changes: This release allows scanning of SSL-encrypted traffic with the new Squid feature sslBump, and fixes bad handling of non-running proxies and clamd daemons.

Licenses: GPLv3