History

Outpost Network Security 3.2 (3414.520.1244)

Release date: October 28, 2010

What’s new:

• Windows 7 support
• Windows Vista SP2 support
• Windows Server 2008 support
• Windows Server 2008 R2 support

Redesigned antimalware component:

• Automatic scanning of removable USB devices
• Improved mail scanner, new ability to clean attachments
• Flexible component settings
• New ability to scan boot sectors
• New ability to specify real-time protection monitor response on detecting malware

Enhanced firewall component:

• Channel load between driver and monitoring service significantly decreased
• Improved traffic filtering performance in P2P networks
• New stateful packet inspection (SPI) for UDP protocol
• New invalid TCP flag filtering
• Improved content filtering algorithm now excludes local traffic and binary threads
• Fixed critical issues in TDI/TLI filters under Windows 2000/XP/Vista, resulting in improved system stability

Redesigned Process Activity monitor:

• Process modules list added
• Ability to quarantine suspicious process or module
• Improved algorithm used to define I/O counters

New System Guard component extends original Critical Objects component:

• Critical registry entries and system files protected against modification through the use of preset rules
• Increased number of protected objects
• Ability to create custom rules to protect registry entries and system files
• Ability to create custom rules for applications that have higher priority than global rules (exclusions)

Redesigned UI:

• General appearance and dialog boxes redesigned to follow Windows Vista/Windows 7 style conventions

Web Control component:

• Web pages can be blocked according to keywords included in URL as well as in the page body

The following improvements have been made:

• Multiple stability improvements in kernel drivers
• LNK file integrity control algorithm implemented in antispyware module to prevent infection by malware using the LNK exploit
• Self-protection mechanism improved (new registry hives now protected)
• Improved stability of file operations filtering
• Improved content filtering performance

The following issues have been fixed:

• Problems with remote deployment
• Most commonly-reported crashes
• Possible system freezes on various actions: delete file, open file from context menu, empty recycle bin
• Outpost crash after changing Quick Scan configuration during antimalware quick scan
• Outpost crash after clicking on a link in the Outpost window
• Outpost crash while navigating in Netstat View using the keyboard
• Possible system crash while working with multiple mobile devices
• Possible freeze on starting automatic update
• Unavailable service when installing on a low-powered PC
• Inability to send SMTP attachments using Thunderbird mail client
• Inability to open the properties of some applications from the Edit Rules dialog
• Issues displaying web pages on servers using gzip encoding
• Issues with heuristic analysis
• Possible problems with ICS (packets may be blocked)
• Possible problems with driver installation
• High CPU load when working with Lingvo X3
• Inconsistency in detecting host file modification
• Inconsistency in disabling Windows Firewall after Outpost installation
• Incoming NetBIOS connections blocked even with NetBIOS check box in LAN settings selected
• Transit packets blocked when attempting to open web pages under VMWare
• Packets blocked by IP Block component not displayed in the Packets log
• Possible freeze/stop during full system scan
• Issues with automatic creation of rules for some applications
• Additional minor issues