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Agniitum wins sixth VB100 in a row - now on Windows XP! http://goo.gl/FXiql

We are glad to announce the results of the latest antivirus tests carried out by the Virus Bulletin testing labs on Outpost Security Suite Pro 7.1. Outpost Security Suite Pro 7.1 praised for effective virus protection under Windows XP SP3.

That means that Outpost Security Suite Pro commits to virus-free zones under all widely-used Windows platforms — all of the last six entries having resulted in passes. Results are applied also to Agnitum’s free Internet Security Suite 7.1 and 7.1.1 and standalone Outpost Antivirus Pro 7.1.

Outpost Security Suite also has shown impressive results in Reactive And Proactive malware detection testing — 88.8% in this testing. That means that... Read more

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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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