Agnitum Blog

Outpost Pro 7.5.2 RC is finally here!

2012-02-01T11:58:00.009+04:00

Dear customers, Yesterday we have published Release Candidate news on Version 7.5.2 RC availability. But mistakenly publication has not occured at our index pages, so you possibly could not find the download links. It was recently fixed, so please meet the news - Outpost Security Gets More Stable with Release Candidate for Version 7.5.2 with direct download links. News in other language

Anti-malware engine auto-updated to version 5.4.1

2012-01-27T13:00:00.000+04:00

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 /

7.5.2 Release is coming soon!

2012-01-19T12:17:00.001+04:00

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

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

2012-01-12T16:25:00.000+04:00

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

Happy and Secure New Year from Agnitum

2011-12-29T13:08:00.003+04:00

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

2011-12-23T11:48:00.000+04:00

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

Holiday Season will bring along Outpost 7.5.2

2011-11-30T15:24:00.000+04:00

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

Outpost is now available in Dutch

2011-11-24T18:24:00.002+04:00

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.

Autumn geography from Outpost

2011-11-17T15:55:00.001+04:00

This fall has already brought us huge sales for Outpost Network Security, Agnitum's corporate security product. Among them are from Hungary (license for 800 PCs) and Iran (license for 256 PCs – OPEC countries seem to like magic powers of 2 :) ). We've also tracked sales from small countries. As we see, people from micro-America (St. Pierre and Miquelon) , micro-Europe (Malta and Luxembourg ),

Outpost Pro 7.5 Edition proved its Performance

2011-11-09T13:38:00.002+04:00

As you could see from the previous blog post, Outpost Security Suite Pro received its ninth VB100 certification for continuing reliability in threat detection and prevention. But do you know that it is also one of the Top 4 security products with the greatest scanning performance? According to the Virus Bulletin report, Outpost’s scanning speed on a repeated scan for archives, binaries and

Outpost's 9 VB100 certificates in a row

2011-11-03T15:10:00.001+04:00

Virus Bulletin magazine has issued the report with VB100 October certification results - now for 44 products running on Windows Server 2003 R2. It was the 4th VB100 test for Outpost's Anti-malware on the Server 2003 R2, but only the 1st test for Outpost 7.5 - Performance Edition. Outpost Security Suite Pro (with its current version 7.5.1) has achieved 100% detection on the Wild-List and

Outpost 7.5.2 release is postponed

2011-10-27T16:26:00.000+04:00

Dear readers, we have re-scheduled the next minor update (version 7.5.2) release of Outpost Security Suite Pro, Outpost Firewall Pro and Outpost Antivirus Pro until the middle of November, 2011. The newer version will be available at www.agnitum.com when accurate internal testing will be complete. Now version 7.5.1 is still available for download. Short history of Outpost 7.5.2 changes

Antimalware engine improvement

2011-10-20T12:55:00.000+04:00

The antimalware engine update to version 5.4 that we introduced at the beginning of October has brought one more improvement that we would like to draw your attention to. It's a fix in the UPX unpacker module that previously caused BSOD. Best regards, Natalia Solovyeva

50 percent of Outpost new customers came from Kaspersky, Symantec and McAfee

2011-10-11T18:37:00.000+04:00

Agnitum's competitive upgrade offer launched back in July is over and we are glad to share the final results. With the 16,500 participants involved, the program allowed to convert 7,250 active licenses from 21 different vendors over a 10-week period. Every day 100 users traded in their security solution for Outpost Security Suite Pro or Outpost Antivirus Pro. According to the final results

Antimalware engine update – version 5.4

2011-10-06T14:35:00.004+04:00

We are happy to inform you about antimalware engine update to version 5.4. You might have already noticed it yesterday as it is updated automatically :) So what key features has version 5.4 brought along? Improved detection capabilities thanks to the advanced unpacker technology Even better scanning of the Unicode files thanks to the improvements in Unicode file name handling Kind regards,

Outpost now speaks Arabic and Hungarian

2011-09-28T17:12:00.002+04:00

We are pleased to announce that Arabic and Hungarian localization for Outpost 7.5 are ready! Arabic is coming with the version 7.5.2 at www.agnitum.me, Hungarian is available at www.agnitum.hu since September, 14 already. We are expecting more localizations in October and November including Dutch and Polish, Chinese Traditional and Chinese Simplified, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese, Farsi (

Spyware/adware signatures databases update fixed

2011-09-26T16:15:00.000+04:00