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 technology is able to combat certain special, hard-to-detect malware with a "fluctuating" signature. 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 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).

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!