Thursday, January 27, 2011

On the road to Outpost 7.5: Updated antimalware engine – version 5.2

As promised last year, we're going to inject some details of the upcoming Outpost 7.5 product line from time to time. Hopefully, these preview articles will boost up your interest to the new solutions!

For starters, let's talk about anti-malware improvements.

By the next edition, Outpost's antivirus engine will get a major upgrade to version 5.2 which gives rise to a significant performance yield! With the introduction of new management and storage functionality for the signature databases, the antimalware module now uses 50% less memory. The updated anti-malware engine delivers even greater detection accuracy by grouping similar virus implementations under a single signature; this reduction in the number of signatures required for effective malware detection also contributes to reduced performance impact. This results in improved scanning speeds and lower resource consumption, up to 20% for certain file types (executable files, scripts, and compressed executable in ZIP/ARJ archives).



The new Controllable Emulator analyzes every executable and compressed file in emulation mode, which imitates in a controlled environment the memory and OS status of the PC as far as possible. This technology is able to combat certain special, hard-to-detect malware with a "fluctuating" signature.

Besides, web content filtration has also achieved solid performance gains turning up to 100 times faster in some aspects. Stay tuned and learn more on this in one of our next "On the road" postings!

Pavel Goryakin
Agnitum Ltd.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Outpost 7.0 receives another Gold Award in Anti-Malware Test Lab's self-protection tests

We are delighted to announce that Outpost Security Suite Pro 7.0 has passed Anti-Malware.ru's tests under Windows 7 (x64) with flying colors to achieve the Gold Award for Self-Protection.

In total, 20 personal antivirus and security suite products were tested. Outpost posted one of the best results by resisting 92% of attacks (30.5 points out of 33), proving once again the accuracy and efficiency of its anti-deactivation tools. Many competing solutions, including such industry leaders as PC Tools Internet Security 2011 and Eset Smart Security 4.2 (both at 59%) and Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 (test failed at 30%), fell far behind, delivering only mediocre results in response to the attacks.

Outpost 7 also achieved almost-perfect scores in the system level, process termination, process modification, and driver protection tests under Windows 7 by providing full support for 64-bit systems, taking into account the specific architecture and security requirements of these systems.

Since November 2010 Outpost Security Suite has been available in a FREE version for both 32- and 64-bit systems in addition to the even more extensive commercial version. Learn more about the all-round proactive protection in Outpost Security Suite FREE at http://free.agnitum.com.

Pavel Goryakin
Agnitum Ltd.