Version history for Emsisoft Anti-Malware
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Changes for v11.5.0.6191 - v11.6.0.6267
- Improved: Emsisoft Security Center startup speed.
- Improved: Restore process of false positives after a Quarantine Re-scan.
- Improved: Stability of import hosts file in Surf Protection.
- Improved: A2CMD now processes “/?” and “/help” even if no valid key installed.
- Improved: A2CMD now processes “/k” and “/u” combination in one commandline.
- Improved: A2CMD /? wording.
- Improved: Malware removal on reboot.
- Fixed: Surfprotection now doesn’t show alert in Game mode.
- Fixed: A silent scheduled scan now doesn’t open Emsisoft Security Center.
- Fixed: Occasional crash “TEmsiEdit.SetBounds”.
- Fixed: Update percentage indicator in the tray icon hint.
Changes for v11.0.0.6054 - v11.5.0.6191
- Improved: Emsisoft Security Center startup speed and UI responsiveness.
- Fix: Fileguard executes the recommended action without any alert in Game mode.
- Fixed: Occasional “Range check” error.
- Fixed: Crash after ‘Scan computer’ initiated from tray icon.
- Fixed: Issue where IP-address ranges were not blocked in Emsisoft Internet Security.
- Fixed: Occasional issue where application rules could not be deleted in Emsisoft Internet Security.
- Fixed: Issue with not updated Surf protection hosts/risks actions after a settings import.
Changes for v8.1.0.33 - v8.1.0.40
- Improvements:
- Adds support for detecting malicious Chrome and Firefox extensions.
- Adds general support of newest Firefox and Chrome developer versions.
- Adds support for detecting possibly unwanted system settings.
- Improved infection categorization.
- Internal optimizations to reduce the number of required signatures and memory consumption.
- Removed Outlook integration as it became obsolete for safety.
- Removed cookie scan as it became obsolete for safety.
- Enhanced error logging routines.
- Problem with Security Wizard reappearing after completed installation – fixed.
- Bug with filenames in email notifications – fixed.
- Several potential memory corruptions and memory leaks – fixed.
- Problem with handling of specific network shares – fixed.
- Problem with files being occasionally detected as folders and folders as files – fixed.
Changes for v8.1.0.19 - v8.1.0.33
- Improvements:
- Improved behavior blocking rule processing.
- Improved handling of objects infected by multiple malware.
- Fixed an issue with repeated downloads of specific updates.
- Fixed a problem with removal of specific cookies.
- Fixed a wrong behavior of the licensing system.
- Fixed bug “A major problem has prevented the application from starting”.
- Fixed a bug that prevented resetting of certain registry value names under HKU.
- Surf Protection host list loading bug fixed.
- Incorrectly alerted hosts for disabled categories fixed.
- Crash on quarantine rescan after online update fixed.
- Languages:
- Emsisoft Anti-Malware includes 27 language-packs (English, German, French, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese).
- Compatibility:
- Emsisoft Anti-Malware 8.1 runs on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 with full x64 support from Windows Vista onwards.
- Emsisoft Anti-Malware for Server 8.1 is specialized in server protection and runs on Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2012.
Changes for v8.0.0.10 - v8.1.0.19
- Emsisoft Anti-Malware 8.1.0.19 is a maintenance update for improved stability and user experience.
- Improvements:
- Fixed a potential deadlock situation in real-time protection module.
- Several potential memory leaks fixed.
- Problem when clicking links in notification popups fixed.
- Issue with incorrectly displayed file paths fixed.
- Problem with tray icon that is occasionally invisible fixed.
- Improved debug logging.
- Guard autorun entry is no longer created for freeware version.
- Fixed issue with some application links not working properly.
- Improved compatibility with Windows 8.1 and third party applications utilizing catalogue files.
- Program freeze issue fixed.
- Several GUI fixes and help file updates.
- Languages:
- Emsisoft Anti-Malware includes 27 language-packs (English, German, French, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese).
- Compatibility:
- Emsisoft Anti-Malware 8.1 runs on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 with full x64 support from Windows Vista onwards.
- Emsisoft Anti-Malware for Server 8.1 is specialized in server protection and runs on Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2012.
Changes for v7.0.0.21 - v8.0.0.10
- Major signature database cleanup and reorganization to reduce update traffic and memory usage by approx. 80 MB.
- Greatly improved malware cleaning engine for safer and more thorough removal of infections.
- Significantly faster updates through the implementation of:
- parallel downloads during updates, in order to make the most out of the available local bandwidth;
- an optimized update routine, reducing the average processing time from up to 20 seconds to under 3 seconds;
- a large distributed network of servers in over 30 data processing centres all around the globe, allowing us to provide you with more update servers closer to your area.
- Dozens of improvements based on customer feedback (thank you!) for the user interface, leading to enhanced user experience.
- Includes important stability and compatibility fixes.
Changes for v7.0.0.18 - v7.0.0.21
- Improved Windows 8 compatibility.
- Internal enhancements for Enterprise Console support.
- Service restart behavior changed as required by Microsoft for certification.
- Scheduler bug that occured on midnight actions – fixed.
- Minor registration key input box problem – fixed.
- Bug in reloading of specific imported settings – fixed.
- Occasional application crash when clicking menu items – fixed.
- Initial delay for missed scheduled scans or updates was increased to up to 1 minute.
- Risk level rating of malware improved.
- Bug when submitting custom host rules – fixed.
Changes for v7.0.0.12 - v7.0.0.17
- Decreased the required init time for online updates.
- Improved license key handling and added support for Windows 2012 Server.
- Internal modifications of update system (closing GUI doesn’t break updates anymore).
- Problems in scheduler calculations used to evaluate the start time of auto-update and scheduled scans – fixed.
- Crash during scans in Security Setup Wizard – fixed.
- Several GUI fixes in freeware mode.
- Software/server communication issue – fixed.
- Improved restoration of modified registry values during cleaning.
- Problem with multiple reloading of signatures after online update – fixed.
- Crash when database location is changed – fixed.
- Scanned objects counter shows wrong number in Commandline Scanner – fixed.
- Added security measures to prevent a settings reset in case of a crash.
- Several minor bugfixes in Outlook plugins.
- Fixed a compatibility issue with the Surf Protection and Internet Explorer 10.
- Improved integrity check for settings file to avoid losing settings.
- Minor bugfixes.
- Bug in settings store system fixed.
- Changes to the help output of the Commandline Scanner.
- Changes to the quarantine submit system.
- Quarantine rescan on updates problem fixed.
- Bug when exporting custom host rules fixed.
- Wrong behavior of alert window when retrieving data from the anti-malware network fixed.
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Changes for v7.0.0.10 - v7.0.0.12
- Emsisoft Anti-Malware 7.0.0.12 is a minor maintenance update for improved overall stability and performance:
- Improved surf protection host list.
- Optimized loading of signatures.
- Display bug in scan result list fixed.
- Registry traces removal issue fixed.
- Restoring of false detected email attachments fixed.
- Problem while submitting malware during scan process fixed.
- License changing problem in running guard fixed.
- Auto update and scheduled scans scheduling problem fixed.
- Minor GUI bugs in freeware mode fixed.
- Minor problem in performance settings dialog fixed.
- Whitelist export bug fixed.
- Minor improvements in logging system.
- Added a switch to enable/disable caching in commandline scanner.
- Problem when removing malware located in archives with commandline scanner fixed.
- All customers who own a valid Emsisoft Anti-Malware licence will receive the new version at no cost through online updates as usual. You can also download the installation file from our Emsisoft Anti-Malware product page and test it for 30 days at no cost and without any obligations. When the trial period ends, you still can use the software in freeware mode to scan and clean infections.
- Emsisoft Anti-Malware includes 27 language-packs: English, German, French, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Croatian, Czech, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Changes for v7.0 Beta - v7.0.0.10
- Completely new second scan engine from BitDefender (B) with even more efficient scans and greater detection rate.
- Significantly less false alerts as they were usually caused by the former second scan engine.
- Improved first scan engine (A) now runs faster than ever.
- New performance settings for experts to configure the CPU use of the scanner.
- Significantly better real-time protection performance. The active guard does not slow down your computer.
- Optimized malware cleaning to be able to restore registry entries that were affected by malware.
- Improved surf protection to block malware-, phishing- and privacy risk websites with a brand new and more frequently updated database (every hour).
- Faster online updates via smaller incremental downloads. This means hourly updates are ready for use without delay.
Changes for v6.6.0.4 - v7.0 Beta
- Completely new second scan engine (B) with even more efficient scans and greater detection rate.
- Significantly less false alerts as they were usually caused by the former second scan engine.
- Improved first scan engine (A) now runs faster than ever.
- Significantly better real-time protection performance. The active guard does not slow down your computer.
- Optimized malware cleaning to be able to restore registry entries that were affected by malware.
- Improved surf protection with a brand new and more frequently updated database.
- Faster online updates via smaller differential downloads. This means hourly updates are ready for use without delay.
Changes for v6.0.0.46 - v6.0.0.49
- Surf protection speed improvements.
- Crash on system standby ? fixed.
- Crashes submitted from reports ? fixed.
- Slow start of GUI on Windows 7 x64 ? fixed.
- System freeze/tray icon update animation loop ? fixed.
- One more problem that may cause a delay on software startup fixed.
- Crash on service component restart ? fixed.
- Communication problem of service with GUI components ? fixed.
- Application rule submission bug fixed that caused a guard freeze problem with tooltip text ??1 KB (100%) of 1 KB uploaded???.
Changes for v6.0.0.40 - v6.0.0.42
- Self protection bug ? fixed.
- Context menu scan fails with already open scanner window ? fixed.
- Formatting bug of ADS names in file guard alerts ? fixed.
- Problem with mixing Domain and Local users in permissions settings ? fixed.
- Occasional crash on moving detected objects to quarantine ? fixed.
- Rootkit detection information message box modified.
- Minor internal improvements.
- Crash on reading skin.ini ? fixed.
- Engine and quarantine initialize bug ? fixed.
- ScanBuffer bug ? fixed.
- Preparations for upcoming features.
- Added memory limitations for the file i/o threads to avoid memory starvation on systems with very fast disk setups like SSDs or RAIDs.
Changes for v6 Beta - v6.0.0.40
- Scanner:
- Completely re-written dual scan engine framework for multi-core optimizations.
- 450% speed improvement on average ? with the same things being scanned.
- Advanced caching for self optimizing scans ? it gets faster with every scan.
- New direct disk access scan mode for better rootkit detection (TDL-3, ZeroAccess, TDL-4, Sinowal).
- Changed scan presets - added Rootkit scan, excluded Cookie scan.
- Improved false positive handling.
- Desired actions to be taken on scan completion can be set before the scan now, too.
- The postfixes of infections were changed to !E1 and !E2.
- New animation during active scans.
- User interface simplifications for better usability.
- Added loading scan engine animation in security setup wizard.
- Missed scheduled scans can optionally be run on next program startup.
- Realtime protection:
- Significantly reduced performance impact of the file guard with smart caching.
- Optimizations to strongly speed up the boot process.
- Reduced false positives in real world use due to internal rating system.
- File guard file extensions list can now be reset to defaults.
- Internal and custom host blocker rules can be viewed more conveniently now.
- Re-organized the guard tray icon menu to provide quick access to common features.
- Licensing:
- User accounts are no longer required. Switched to a simple key-based system.
- Simplifications in license dialogs.
- New referral rewards program to obtain a full version license for free by referring new users.
- Get 1 month for free by referring another 1 month trial user.
- Get 6 months for free by referring a buying customer.
- New long term customer bonus program ? renewals get 5% cheaper every year.
- Improved notification when license is about to expire soon.
- Each license is limited to use on one computer now.
- General:
- Settings can now be exported and imported by category.
- Added security prompts to confirm final deletion of files, rules or logs.
- Added newsletter subscription link in news area.
- Improved update system for greater stability of online updates.
- No more use of the registry to store settings ? using ini files now.
- Code cleanup and improvements to avoid potential crashes and hangs.
- Simplified the setup process significantly.
- Removed the trojan horse animation.
Changes for v5.1.0.15 - v5.1.0.16
- Updater bug fixed.
- “File not found” alert on malware removal problem fixed.
- Possible system freeze bug fixed.
- Added RAM disk support for Commandline Scanner.
Changes for v5.1.0.10 - v5.1.0.14
- Displaying “allow” suggestion on behavior alerts accidently – fixed.
- Problem with scheduling system – fixed.
- Weblink on malware removal message box does not work – fixed.
- Refreshing licenses does not work – fixed.
- Update animation does not stop correctly – fixed.
- Removing host rules problem – fixed.
- Wildcard support for built-in host rules added.
- Guard crash bug fixed.
- Windows Security Center synchronization problems fixed.
- Host rules handling problem fixed.
- Auto-Update bug fixed.
- Internal improvements for debugging.
Changes for v5.1.0.3 - v5.1.0.4
- Updater problems fixed.
- Minor GUI modifications.
Changes for v5.0.0.68 - v5.0.0.84
- Server mode in freeware mode bug fixed.
- Application restart bug fixed.
- Crash bug in Wizard fixed.
Changes for v5.0.0.49 - v5.0.0.50
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Behavior Blocker from working correctly on non-default Windows installations
- Shutdown notification handling fixed
- 64 Bit context menu fixed
- Service connection problems fixed
- Certificate check improved
Changes for v4.5.0.29 - v5.0.0.49
- Emsisoft Anti-Malware Version 5.0 incorporates major changes. The one that is most relevant to the user: The user interface has been greatly simplified. This allows PC beginners to immediately start working with the software because it is now much easier to use. The scanner has also been integrated into the main window and can now be started even faster than before. Emsisoft Anti-Malware is also very light on computer resources and now uses only about 20 MB RAM in normal guard operation.
- Other new features:
- A new file guard: To ease the load on the system, the Anti-Malware background guard previously only started when files in the system were opened or executed. The new file guard in version 5 has been written anew from scratch and now also offers the optional ability to scan files immediately after downloading and when they are copied or moved.
- Full support for Windows 7: Anti-Malware 5 offers full support for Windows 7, including new functions specific to Windows 7.
- 100% x64 compatible: Anti-Malware 5.0 works equally well without limitations on both 32 and 64 bit systems. This makes Anti-Malware 5 one of the first “complete” behavior-blockers for x64 systems.
- Extended behavior analysis: A new addition is recognition of manipulation of the system security policies. The false alert filter has been further refined and the design of the alert window has been optimized.
- Improved self-protection: The self-protection in Anti-Malware 5 has been greatly optimized. This prevents Malware programs from changing or disabling the protection program.
- Improved cleaning: The cleaning routines in the software have been greatly improved. This means that all Malware found by the program can also be reliably deleted.
- New game mode: Users can now suppress all popups and alarms per mouse click if they wish to remain undisturbed during a game or while working with any other type of full-screen application.
- No more need for registration when testing: Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5 can now be tested free of charge without prior registration.
- New freeware mode: After a license or test period has expired, Anti-Malware 5 can still be used free of charge without the guard features. You are not compelled to purchase the product in order to test and clean your PC.
- Hundreds of small improvements: Numerous features requested by the users, such as optional shutdown of the computer after completion of a scan or a new central whitelist, have been added during Beta testing.
Changes for v5.0 Beta - v5.0.0.43 Beta
- Quarantine rescan of cookies crash fixed
- Rule handling bug fixed
- Self protection problem fixed
- Changed default settings of surf protection
