Outpost 7.5 enters Public Beta #2 phase

Yesterday, on April 13, Outpost 7.5 - Performance Edition became available as Public Beta #2. Second Public Beta is based on first public beta feedback and internal work-outs.

As always, you’re welcome to check out Outpost 7.5 Public Beta #2 and share your impressions.

What’s new in Outpost 7.5 Public Beta #2? 
- New Auto-Learn and optional security alerts on trusted application activity
- Allow Once / Block Once options restored
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Check out the Public Beta #2 versions of Outpost Pro 7.5 today and provide your feedback.

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InterZet Customers to Get Outpost Antivirus Free

Proactive antivirus protection now available to 4 million ISP customers as monthly subscription

Outpost AntiVirus Service is now available to the four million customers, including 200 thousand customers of major St. Petersburg ISP InterZet (www.interzet.ru) as part of their basic subscription.

What is Outpost AV Service and why it's free? >>

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Public Beta program for Outpost 7.5 — Performance Edition

A preview of new performance gains and additional levels of non-signature detection

Outpost 7.5 product line is available in public beta!

Packed with new functionality and performance improvements, the latest versions of Outpost Security Suite Pro, Outpost Firewall Pro and Outpost Antivirus Pro speed up overall operation and reveal as little resource load as possible for up-to-date security solutions.

Thanks to the consolidation of signature databases in user and kernel modes, Outpost 7.5 reduces memory usage by 45 to 50 percent compared with Outpost 7.0. Apart from great performance, Outpost’s rock-solid defense has been generously supplemented with new non-signature detection algorithms, flexible autorun protection and clipboard content protection — just to name a few.

Download Outpost 7.5 beta now and let us know what you think!

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Outpost Pro anti-virus engine was updated to 5.2 edition

Outpost Pro anti-virus software users have just received automated major anti-virus engine and virus database update (about 50 Mb in size). New engine edition has index 5.2, new database format version is 13th (previous 12th version was first introduced about a year ago).

The updated anti-malware engine delivers significant virus detection growth due to increasing coverage of detected malware per 1 signature. Engine comes with the new, optimized algorithms for managing and storing the malware database, which resulted in a drastic, 50% reduction of memory usage.

The new technology is able to combat certain special, hard-to-detect malware. New, controllable emulation component of Anti-Malware module, can now determine the required types of analyses more precisely, which results to:
- Scanning speed improved by up to 20% (measured on archive formats TGZ, ZIP and ARJ, scripts, executable and PDF files),
- PDF scanning module has received higher error tolerance, which is able to handle non-standard files more effectively.

The following issues have been also fixed in Outpost anti-virus products and Outpost Firewall Pro:
- No ability to create rules for domains in РФ (RF, Russia) zone,
- Number of malware/spyware signatures in database was displayed incorrectly.

PS: Outpost Pro products (Security Suite Pro and Antivirus Pro) were just updated at Agnitum web-site for edition 3409.520.1244 (7.0.4) to include new engine by default.

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