1. Vipre Service Release
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Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2008 um 12:06

Am Mittwoch dem 28.10 wird Sunbelt das erste Service Release zu Vipre und Vipre Enterprice veröffentlichen.
Dieses Update führt eine Reihe von neuen Funktionen ein und bügelt alle bisher bekannt gewordenen Fehler in Vipre aus:

Hier ein paar Highlights:

Enterprise Konsole:

  • eMail Alarmierung durch die Active Protection#
  • Aktivieren und Deaktivieren der Agents von der Konsole
  • verbesserte Verwaltung der Datei-Ausnahmen

Vipre Antivirus/Enterise Agent:

  • Erweiterter Email Scanner mit Plugins für Outlook und Outlook Express
  • Zeitweises Dekativieren der Active protection (Snooze)
  • Der Enterprise Agent erkennt, wenn ein Laptop ohne Netzversorgung betrieben wird und schrängt die Komunikation zum Server ein.
  • Optionaler automatischer Shutdown des Computers am Ende eines Scannes
  • Funktion zum Verstekcen der nachriten Ballons im System Tray

 Hier alle Änderungen in der Übersicht:

Enterprise Console and Service: (Agent fixes/features are further down).

1. Added Email Alerts for Active Protection.
2. Removed Custom Reports from UI and Service.
3. Added support for Agent Shutdown/Agent Start from Console.
4. Give the administrator the ability to Unquarantine and send to Sunbelt for Analysis.
5. Changed name of Sunbelt Software Research Center to Sunbelt Malware Research Labs.
6. Added Force Full Threat DB Update for selected agents on Agents & Policy Grid.
7. Removed Custom from Admin Known Good/Bad controls (Not necessary).
8. Allow end-user to manually edit Known Good/Bad files and folders. Also disallow the addition of invalid file names and paths and wildcards for file names.
9. Added tab in Policy for Agent Proxy settings.
10. Allow end-user to delete System Message at both Agent and System levels.
11. Added "Archives" checkbox to scanning tab in the policy.
12. Added admin ability to turn on/off On-Access file extensions from the console.
13. Fixed bug that resulted in "Rootkit Scanned" being displayed as the title for "Rootkit Found".
14. Cleaned up the Known Good/Bad file dialogs and grids.
15. Fixed context menu on the agents/policy grid to enable/disable entries properly in sub-menus.
16. Changed minimum agent version to 3.1.2300 to support Unquarantine and Send for Analysis.
17. Added support for migrating SystemMessage table from MSAccess to SQL.
18. Added Power Management Tab to UI and settings to the policy.
19. Enable remote starting of service from console on logon, if service is not running. User must be admin on box running service.
20. Added Ping Agent, Say Hello and Check for Policy Update to Advanced Sub-menu of agents & policy control context menu.
21. Fixed bug on console that disabled File menu if a connection w/ the server was lost.
22. Added ability to report back to admin if Unquarantine or Delete from Quarantine failed.
23. Added Checkboxes to UI and items to policy for Outlook, Outlook Express/Windows Mail and Other Mail Client.
24. Reworded Power Management tab, changed the order of the items to match consumer UI.
25. Fixed "Perform quick scan approximately..." so that it saves data to the policy.
26. Prevented logging of error messages to the System Messages table in the DeferredWorkQueueHandler, this could result in deadlock.
27. Enhanced code that Pings an agent box, pinging by both Machine Name and IP and presenting the results of both pings in a dialog after completion of the ping.

Agent:

1. Add options on the UI Email Protection settings page to allow the user to select which email program they use. Enables and disables the Outlook and Outlook Express plug-ins if not needed.
2. Add a System Event for missed scheduled scans.
3. Change the main icon to "not fully protected" color if either Email AV or AP is disabled. It used to change only when both were disabled.
4. Added logic to report when a quarantine, unquarantine or delete from quarantine action failed.
5. Added logic in the service to set the services display name in Service Control Manager to the Product Name Long or Enterprise Product Name Long string in the resource file.
6. Added more descriptive text on the email AV tab to explain how it is used.
7. Added the definitions version to the hover text for the main tray icon.
8. Changed ALL history lists to sort in reverse chronological order by default.
9. Added logic to the tray to provide an Active Protection snooze feature. The user can turn AP off for a few minutes.
10. Added logic to disable AP when a machine is started in safe mode.
11. Added logic to not start tray in safe mode.
12. Fix bug where Quick/Deep Scans were not always scanning all local drives.
13. Changed the label "Risk definitions" on the overview panel to "Definitions version".
14. Removed the seconds from the definitions date/time on all screens.
15. Added logic to the Enterprise Agent dll to not send Hello calls when the machine is on battery and in power save mode.
16. Added code in the Enterprise Agent to recognize the Service State of Paused and stop sending Hello calls to the service.
17. Added a double click handler for the warning icon. It will perform the first item on the warning icon context menu.
18. Create an option that allows user to specify auto shutdown of computer once manual scan has completed (non-sticky).
19. Fix code that shows, "Bad Date Format" when there are no definitions present.
20. Added a browse button on the Safe Mode UI where a user can manually apply a definitions file that they downloaded.
21. Added a browse button on the UI Update settings page where a user can manually apply a definitions file that they downloaded.
22. Fixed a bug where the Scan Archives was not being properly set for the Enterprise Agent.
23. Removed the software version from the updates section of the overview panel.
24. Scan history panel. Changed the "Date" column headers to say "Date/Time". Also changed scan history to use the start date/time not end date/time of the scan.
25. Scan history panel. Changed column label, "Risks Total" to "Total Risks".
26. Scan history panel. Changed label for days to keep history to from, "Delete history files older than 15 days" to "History files older than 15 days will be deleted".
27. Change enterprise agent to set the sku config for the UI to always show the proxy settings tab.
28. Added support in the Enterprise Agent dll for reporting a possible False Positive as part of Unquarantine.
29. Added support in the Quarantine Panel for reporting a possible False Positive as part of Unquarantine or directly from the quarantine list.
30. Added logic in the Enterprise Agent to support a deferred work item from the service to force a definitions update.
31. Race condition fixed between "close connection" routine and "disconnect event completion" routine in the TDI driver. This problem was causing some BSODs.
32. Added scanner and cleaner errors to scan results xml file (threat engine).
33. Fixed Rootkit bug that could casuse BSOD.
34. Added more parameter validation in process scanning.
35. Fixed bug in the UI where Update Dialog breaks during application of multiple incremental Updates.
36. Fix AP bug where AP did not detect threats on some removable USB devices on XP SP2 and possibly other OSs.
37. Fixed a bug in the Threat Engine where one of the traces of the CommonName threat was not being detected.
38. Fixed a bug in the Enterprise Agent where cookies were only scanned for a custom scan but not quick and deep when initiated from the agent console.
39. Fixed a bug where the Enterprise Agent would show as a consumer UI when installed but could not communicate with the Enterprise service.
40. Added option to hide all balloons shown by the tray.
41. Added a policy setting from the Enterprise service to allow the admin to show/hide tray balloons.
42. Added two tray menu items; Show Balloons and Hide Balloons.
43. Fixed bug in Threat Engine where it was always calculating an MD5 for every file scanned by AP On Access.
44. Prevent premature scheduled Risk Definitions and Software Updates on wake for scheduled scans.
45. Junction point bug fix in boot time scanner and root kit engine.
46. The right click scanner shell extension was loading the resource dll one per second on Vista. Fixed to only load SBAMRes.dll once per right click 47. Fixed bug where VIPRE was not rescheduling updates when they were canceled. (Update intervals being ignored) 48. Added code to the tray to create a registry key in Current User to keep oehook.dll from continually loading and unloading.
49. Fixed a bug in the email AV plug-in where it only registered the plug-in for the user that installed Vipre.
50. Added logic to the Enterprise Agent SOAP class to set the timeout parameter for calls to the Enterprise service. This helps resolve SOAP error 5 communications errors. Added to the policy so the Admins can change it.
51. Fixed bug where items that are moved from quarantine to always allowed aren't all making it to the always allowed section.
 
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