Anti-malware engine auto-updated to version 5.4.1

Anti-virus engine auto-updated to scan JAR and Android apps on-the-fly

Users of Outpost anti-virus products received an automatic minor upgrade for anti-virus engine and virus database. This new engine carries the internal version number 5.4.1 and works smoothly with the latest malware database format (v14).

See Update Summary (English) >>>

News in other language are available here: German / French / Russian.

FYI: Outpost Security Suite Pro 7.5.2 Release Candidate version will be available later, around January 30, for download and testing. Watch this space!

7.5.2 Release is coming soon!

Dear readers,

The Outpost 7.5.2 Beta program already has hundreds of active beta testers signed up since we announced its availability around a week ago.

Early response is encouraging; here’s how one tester responded:

“Positive impressions:

+2 to robustness – stability increased,

+5 to durability – fixed an issue with self-protection,

+7 to defense – anti-malware module enhancements"

We’re approaching release candidate status for Outpost 7.5.2, and the full release schedule is as follows:

• Beta test ends January 27,
• Release candidate to be issued January 27 or 30, 
• Final release is scheduled for the second half of February.

Now it’s time to list out the full history of changes for the upcoming version, leaving only 2 changes for the next blog post (marked with *) -  regarding automatic anti-malware engine update (they are not applicable to Anti-Spyware engine changes).

What’s New: 

10+ consecutive VB100 awards... We are 1 of only 5 vendors to have them in 2012!

Every version we have submitted to Virus Bulletin for Windows testing since the early 2010 has received VB100 certification!

This time, Outpost’s Security's Anti-Malware certified for Windows 7 Pro 32-bit. Now more than 15 out of 45 vendors failed the certification tests due to poor in-the-wild malware detection results and/or false positives in the clean set files, including Symantec and PCTools, Comodo, Emsisoft , Ikarus, QuickHeal, and Webroot.

To read more about VB100 December 2011 certification details and Outpost 7.5.1 detection rates and performance, please follow the link!

Happy and Secure New Year from Agnitum

Dear readers,

It's last but not the least good news from Agnitum. So we release our 2012 New Year Edition... postcard. And looking for upcoming 7.5.2 version release very soon!

We wish you happy holidays and only good news in 2012!

Take care,

Agnitum Team

Six-month summary of SmartDecision activity

Effective preventive blocking of new malware with low false alarms

Dear Outpost Pro 7.5 (7.5.1) – Performance Edition customers! Your decision to protect your PC with Outpost 7.5 was a smart one – thanks to SmartDecision [see whitepaper in PDF, 393 KB]. 

We’d like to tell you what Agnitum’s ImproveNet internal statistics have told us about the new threats blocked by Outpost’s 7.5 Proactive Protection.

You’re already familiar with SmartDecision’s “Malware” verdict and Outpost’s code-red notification - you could even be one of the thousands of users who anonymously supply our labs with these files for further analysis (for which we thank you!).

A significant percentage of this collection is already available with your malware signature database updates. But here, we are talking about files that are unknown to Outpost Anti-Malware at the time of blocking.

The numbers speak for themselves:

• 28% of the files were definitely malicious, and their signatures have been added to the malware database,
• 12% were new programs or application versions, most of which were created after cracking or unofficial patching, and only 3% were clean goodware, previously unknown in our lab,
• 60% remain suspicious, so we proceeded with their analysis ONLY after new data had been obtained. About one third of those files turned out to be really malicious, and for the remaining 40% we do not yet have updates for data submitted, because they were unique files are never double-reported (or we did not receive the updates from you).

So far as we can see, the SmartDecision analysis produced only 3% false positive detection, but added signatures for 45%-50% of the files submitted to Outpost Anti-Malware databases.

If you are still not Outpost Pro 7.5 user, visit Outpost Products page and download its 30-days trial.

Holiday Season will bring along Outpost 7.5.2

For the last few weeks Outpost 7.5.2 has been under internal testing. Finally we are thrilled to share that the release is coming in December, around Holiday Season. We know how important for you is to be protected against the threats of 2012, so it's coming!

Outpost 7.5.2 will bring a number of significant enhancements including complete Unicode support and improved detection for packed executables!

We'll keep you updated, so no worries – you'll get it as soon as it arrives!

Best regards,
Natalia Solovyeva

Outpost is now available in Dutch

Outpost security solutions speak more and more languages for all of our dear customers. With the help of our partner in Netherlands, Outpost 7.5 is now available in Dutch.

We are really thankful for making this possible and congratulations to our Dutch partner for Premium Distributor status awarded.
 
In total, with today's launch of Dutch, Outpost is fully localized into over 20 languages.

Download your Outpost in Dutch
And don't miss 50% discount on Outpost in Dutch here!

Best regards,
Natalia Solovyeva