RosTelecom launches Outpost Anti-Virus Service to 7.5 million subscribers

The leading provider of wired Internet access across the CIS doubles AV Service reach

The Internet security experts at Agnitum are pleased to announce that JSC RosTelecom will make the Outpost Anti-Virus subscription service (Outpost AV Service) available to the over seven and half million subscribers to the company’s home Internet service in Russia. RosTelecom is the leading provider of wired Internet access across Russia and the CIS countries.

The Outpost AV Service is now available to 14 million Internet users in the former Soviet Union (up from nine million in April 2012). Agnitum’s service is now carried by 90+ ISPs in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, and the total number of active Outpost AV Service customers currently stands at more than 1% of the available user base (more than 140,000 customers).

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Outpost Pro 7.5.3: download the latest version

Dear customers,

Right after we released version 7.5.3 (see http://www.agnitum.com/news/2012-06-06-outpost-7-5-3-release.php), we were alerted to the following issues on some OSes:

• Performance issues with Torrent clients.
• Closed connections were not counted but displayed in network activity monitor.

These issues have now been fixed so, if you did experience these issues with version 7.5.3, please go to http://www.agnitum.com/lp/download-outpost-7-5-internet-security.php and download the latest version.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Agnitum Team

Outpost Pro 7.5.3 to deliver Security for Java 7

We are pleased to announce the release of Outpost Pro Version 7.5.3 (3941.604.1810) 'Performance Edition', featuring support for Java 7, MySQL, and Windows Remote Desktop when using IPv6 under Windows 7 - right in time with World IPv6 Day :)

Anti-virus products include upgraded Anti-Malware engine with memory consumption reduced by approximately 20%, and more efficient database format, significantly decreasing the size of the databases.

Key bug fixes in version 7.5.3 guarantee Anti-Malware's engine stability and full coverage of detection on 64-bit systems. Learn more >>

Release packages size, MB (as for June 6, 2012 - for 32-bit/64-bit systems, respectively):
Outpost Security Suite Pro: 143 (x86) / 155 (x64)
Outpost Firewall Pro: 36.1 (x86) / 44 (x64)
Outpost Antivirus Pro:  Size, MB: 140 (x86) / 149 (x64)
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Virus database and AV core engine upgraded

The new minor auto-upgrade for Outpost's anti-virus engine was scheduled for the end of the current week. It will be delivered during June 1-4 to all our customers.

 The new anti-virus engine carries the internal version number 5.5.1.3 (previous one was 5.5.0.4) and works only with the new malware database format (v15), to be updated simultaneously.

Main changes in June's upgrade:

• significantly decrease both the memory consumption of the virus database and the size of the individual database files on the disc, 
• as a result of this development the memory requirement of the loaded database decreased by approximately 20%.

Other changes since April's upgrade:

• Fixed crash occurred on hacked UPX samples on x64 platform.
• Some kind of malware may have not been detected by the x64 version of the engine (though x86 version could detect them).

Also, the support for loading a minimal database set was added  (to provide protection for machines with very low memory).  

As usually, the latest version available for download from www.outpost.pro, will have latest AV engine and its updates (they are incrementally added to the download server on the daily basis).

NB! Users of Outpost anti-virus products (including Outpost Free/Pro/AV Service/Network editions, in any case of license statement - trial/promo/active) should receive this minor upgrade automatically.