Release Notes - Returnil System Safe 2011
3.2.10143
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- Usability
- New languages: German and Japanese
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Returnil System Safe (3.2.10100)
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- Virtual Mode
- Fixed preserving of VM settings after upgrade from 3.1 System Restore
- Fixed recursive full restore suggestions that may occur in some cases Usability
- Enhanced application responsiveness during upgrades from 3.1 to 3.2. Prevented application hangs under very heavy system load scenarios
- Changed popup style for A/V updates to match style of other popups in application
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Returnil System Safe (3.2.10006) RC2
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- Virus Guard
- Fixed a number of issues related to integration with cloud protection
- Fixed product recovery in the case of manual corruption of A/V updates Virtual Mode
- Virtual Disk
- Changed default disk type to FAT32 to minimize impact of the virtual disk to the rest of the system
- Fixed deletion of virtual disk under Windows Vista
System Restore
- Fixed file restoration in the case of reconfiguration of disk partitioning scheme Usability
- Added an option to configure status of protected system: Either new model or backward compatible model (Preferences / Administration)
- Added "System Requires Attention" product status, which becomes active when there is a recommended action to perform by user
- Fixed GUI crash when progress window is displayed multiple times
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Returnil System Safe (3.2.9914) RC1A
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- Virus Guard
- Fixes
- Fixed service crashes when A/V updates are downloaded
- Fixed inability to re-enable real-time protection after new A/V update has been received
- Reduced CPU usage during certain operations
Virtual Mode
- Fixes
- Fixed BSODs and other errors that occur for mount, unmount, or remount of virtual disk on Windows Vista
- Fixed BSOD that may occur right after entering into Virtual Mode
- File Manager
- Save folder contents recursivelyNEW
- Delete absent files when saving to real disk
- Honor special file types (like hard links)
- Display progress when files are copying
- Start Virtual Mode
- Prevent destroying of real disk when Virtual Mode is active
Usability
- User Interface
- Added support for Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA)
- Enhanced Protection Sensitivity control
- Localization
- Added support for right-to-left languages
Maintenance
- Passed Microsoft Windows Software Logo Program testing
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Returnil System Safe (3.2.9815) RC1
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- Overall Product
- Re-branding to "Returnil System Safe" System RestoreNEW (Recover infected files or restore your entire system in case of infection)
- Perform automated analysis and file restoration during Real-time, Quick and Full scan
- Perform full system restoration with automatic detection of previous not infected system state
- Allow user to recover documents and settings after full restore
- Restore functionality is fully extensible and easy to integrate with third-party backup systems
- Support for Microsoft Windows Volume Shadow Copy service is built-in in the product as a default provider for restore functionality
- Watch our site for a new product that implements a restore provider that overcomes limitations of the built-in mechanism and provides much stronger features to restore infected systems Virus Guard
- Cloud ProtectionNEW Allows for analysis of programs in the cloud to provide advanced malware detection capabilities and significantly reduce time for new malware recognition
- The existing Virus Guard functionality has been integrated with Returnil in-the-cloud engine for malware detections and preventions, in addition to local A/V engine
- Optimized data collection engine to minimize effect of the cloud protection to end user computer even more
- Allow user to monitor availability of cloud protection for a particular installation
- Note: The cloud protection is running in restricted mode at this time. It will be running at full speed soon. You will not need to change your client to feel the difference.
- RepairNEW
- Added unified repair process for detected infections that combines quarantine and restore operations
- Local A/V Engine
- Updated A/V engine to version 4.6.1
- Enhanced malware detection in advanced modes by providing more memory for A/V engine (Not available in Windows XP)
- Fixed detection of trojans
- Quarantine
- Allow restoring a file to a user-defined location
- Compress files to use disk space efficiently. Show size of the items
- Fixed moving to Quarantine under 64-bit Windows 7
- Fixed Quarantine in Quick Scan when the same malware is specified in several registry locations
- Fixed moving files to Quarantine if they are located on read only devices (e.g. CD drives)
- Updates
- Added user notifications when updates are finished/failed
- Show progress of downloading A/V updates
- Boosted the process of downloading and applying A/V updates
- Automatically rescan recent system changes on receiving a new A/V update
- Automatically increase the rate of checks for A/V updates after critical events detected during data collection
- A/V Exclusions
- Added exclusion of files and folders from Real-time protection as per Microsoft guidelines (KB822158)
- Fixed specifying of network paths or mapped network drives in A/V Exclusion List
- Quick Scan
- Allow selection of malware files to be repaired after Quick Scan completion
- Allow user to work with the main application when Quick Scan is running (non-modal Quick Scan)
- Real-time Protection
- Enabled Real-time Protection for write-only files
- Full Scan
- Allow user to configure scan sensitivity level
- Under Vista/W7, when UAC has enabled: Ask user to perform Full Scan on his files or all files
- Fixed wrong elapsed time that is displayed in Full Scan when the scan takes more than 24 hours
- Virus Guard Log
- Added more details to security log: First and last process that has triggered a malware detection, an infected object within a file (important for viruses in archives), the cases when the detection has been made (including type, sensitivity, when triggered, when started)
- Allow user to exclude a file from Real-time malware analysis (and restore analysis) from the Virus Guard / Log
- Changed format of messages exported from Virus Guard / Log
- Added support for huge number of detections (important for on-disk scan for virus collections)
Virtual Mode
- Anti-ExecuteNEW
- Trust system services from real disk only: A new feature (enabled by default), which prevents malware from bypassing Returnil products
- Start Virtual Mode
- Added detection of memory cache mode. Notify user and limit functionality in this case
- Fixed incorrect calculation of disk cache size when free disk space is close to minimum
- File Protection
- Fixed specifying of system files for the file protection
- Fixed file protection when entire disk is selected
Usability
- User InterfaceNEW
- New layout of tabs, new message organization, split product and security messages
- Better visualization of locked user interface. Disable all operations in locked user interface
- New system menu displayed in system tray and desktop bar
- Message notifications
- Notify user about new messages arrived when GUI is not running
- Localization
- Display all the dates, times, and numbers in the localized format configured via Windows control panel regional settings
- Allow specifying emails using International DNS format
- Starting from Windows 7, added support for DPI-aware GUI
- Licensing
- Added "registration is in process" dialog, simplifying license activation for end users
- Show a dialog when an access to UI feature will require a license
- Only purchased products allow user to hide product icon in system tray
- Fixed resetting of pending registration status when the product cannot be registered with specified license
Maintenance
- Integrated with Windows Security CenterNEW
- Protect the product from unwanted changes by malicious programsNEW
- Enhanced overall system responsiveness for A/V and data collection engines
- Maintain install/uninstall log to simplify support of install/uninstall issues
- Changed product installations path to match Windows Software Logo Kit requirements
- Exclude Returnil work folders from backup/restore operations by Microsoft and other third-party products
- Do not require anymore system restart for applying changes in communication (e.g. proxy settings)
- Fixed installation ID generation on VMWare (Note: This change breaks backward compatibility with clients installed on VMWare already. All settings and license will be lost during upgrade) Returnil Commander (for enterprise customers)
- Remote ControlNEW
- New remote execution engine, many new remote control commands added already
- Scheduling of commands to be executed on clients
- Simple web-based administration and monitoring of remote clients
- Product Configuration
- Allow users to download A/V updates from alternate locations
- Allow remote configuration for the server backup address
- Maintenance
- Automatically reduce network traffic utilization when server does not contain any new changes for client
- Minimize network traffic when too many remote commands shall be processed
- Compress data in network communication
- Fixed slow and unstable process of configuration reload after receiving new update from server
