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eScan Anti-Virus Changelog

What's new in eScan Anti-Virus 14.0.1400.2281

Mar 13, 2024
  • New Virus Signatures added.
  • Optimization done for Performance Improvement.

New in eScan Anti-Virus 14.0.1400.2228 (Oct 29, 2019)

  • Data Encryption added.
  • Mobile scan option added.
  • New Virus Signatures added.
  • Optimization done for Performance Improvement.

New in eScan Anti-Virus 14.0.1400.2117 (Aug 29, 2018)

  • New Virus Signatures added.
  • Performance Improvement.
  • Minor bugs corrected.

New in eScan Anti-Virus 14.0.1400.2091 (Apr 23, 2018)

  • Terminal Service Protection Module (TSPM) added.
  • New Virus Signatures added.
  • Performance Improvement.
  • Minor bugs corrected.

New in eScan Anti-Virus 14.0.1400.2029 (Aug 3, 2017)

  • Incremental Antivirus Signature Updates
  • Windows Critical Patch Management from Server (In Background).
  • Enhanced Web filtering.
  • Ransomware Protection in Endpoints.
  • eBackup on Local Machine (Contact Sales for enabling eBackup Network Feature).
  • New Policy Model - Now user can borrow individual modules from previous policies to create new policy.
  • Policy criteria can be set for Domain Users.
  • Update Agent can be set for Multiple Group(s) & Client(s), through single Configuration page.
  • Update Agent status information can be viewed from "Events & Computers >> Computer Selection"
  • File Activity added under User Activity with option to Filter and Export in various Formats.
  • Export option added for Clients in respective group.
  • Select Column added for Clients Summary.
  • Temporary access to module can be given using One Time Password (OTP) added under "Client Action List".
  • eScan Remote Access (RMM) over LAN and WAN. (Contact Sales for enabling this feature).
  • Option to create client setup added for respective group with Offline policy. Available under "Action List".
  • Option to take Action and Manage client added in Global Search Option.
  • Filter option added to Network Discovery in "Unmanaged Computers >> New Computers Found" Section.
  • New Report Templates Added "File Activity", "Asset Change (Software)", "Asset Change (Hardware)", "Computers with Critical Status", "Scan Report".
  • "Violation" option added under "Events & Computer".
  • Microsoft Software Report for Microsoft Office and Microsoft OS added under Asset Management.
  • Instant email Event Alert added under Outbreak Notification.
  • Customize configurable setup added for deployment (Windows/Linux).
  • Asset Change added under Dashboard.
  • New columns added for client information in groups (E.g. Last Connected/Available User(s)/Logged in User/Local Users).
  • "Export Detailed Report" added in "Asset management >> Software Report".
  • "Policy Criteria Templates" added in "Managed Computers".
  • "Delete All Quarantine Files" added in "Managed Computers >> Client Action List".
  • Update Agent for Linux clients - Linux client machines can also take updates from windows update agent.
  • New feature "Use separate uninstall password" added in "Policy >> Administrator Password ".
  • New policy added for Linux for Uninstall Password and Schedules Updates.
  • New task "Sync System Time with eScan Server" added for Groups and Specific Policy.
  • PDF export option added in "Managed computers >> Client computers".
  • "Network Speed" column added in "Asset Management >> Hardware Detail".
  • "Automatic Move to Non license" added in "Events and computers >> Settings >> Events & Computers Settings >> Computer Selection >> Not connected for long time". Endpoints will be moved to Non-License, if not connected for long time.
  • "Import" button added in "Policy Template >> EndPoint Security >> Application Control >> Block List". User can import CSV file for block list.
  • "Last Month" option added in report scheduler.
  • "Software Version" added in software report.
  • Date/Time Violations added in "Events & Computers" with export facility.
  • "Installed date" column added in Software report.
  • eScan Mobility Management:
  • Containerization added.
  • BYOD/COD grouping added.
  • Geo/WIFI fencing added for COD/BYOD.
  • AD synchronization for adding new devices added.
  • Data Usage added.
  • Location Tracking added.
  • Device enrollment logic improved.
  • AV update logic improved.
  • Change server IP from console added.
  • Unblock device from console added.
  • Network blocking for apps (via VPN) added.
  • Device search option added.
  • Email account wipe settings through policy added.
  • Enrollment Status added to Dashboard.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in eScan Anti-Virus 14.0.1400.1982 (Jul 28, 2017)

  • New virus signatures added.
  • Ransomeware prevention added.
  • Websafe Addons updated.
  • Windows 10 Smart screen filter support added.
  • Improved and secure ebackup added in TSS edition.
  • Network support added for eBackup.
  • Minor bugs related to GUI corrected.
  • Enhanced logic for AV updates added.
  • License renew logic improved.
  • Bootable USB creation wizard added.
  • Improved firewall module added.
  • WebProtection module support added for Microsoft Edge.

New in eScan Anti-Virus 14.0.1400.1849 (Jan 21, 2016)

  • Light weight product: Low memory consumption, fast booting time, fast shutdown time and low CPU utilization.
  • Faster Installation: Highly optimized databases with the product to get install times to less than 1.5 mins
  • Better protection: Improved URL scanning leading to higher detection percentage (touching 100%)
  • Maximum features: 360 degree feature set spectrum from protection to backup.
  • Faster Application Loading: Fast Application loading owing to object property caching.
  • New Improved GUI.
  • New virus signatures added.
  • Minor bugs corrected.

New in eScan Anti-Virus 14.0.1400.1789 (Aug 4, 2015)

  • Version 14 will be compatible with Windows 10 Operating System.
  • New! User based reports.
  • New! eBackup in TSS edition.
  • Improved GUI for Mail Anti-virus and Anti-spam Module.

New in eScan Anti-Virus 14.0.1400.1632 (Jun 24, 2014)

  • Very long filenames within ZIP was causing avpmapp to crash. Corrected now.
  • Suspicious process will be blocked without asking for user action.
  • Minor bug corrected in Vulnerability scanner.
  • Improvement done in downloading virus signatures.
  • Minor bug corrected for auto downloading of Microsoft Critical patches.
  • New Firewall driver added.
  • UTF-8 Encoding issue corrected in other languages.
  • New value added to MAILSCAN.INI, [general], AddReleasedMailsToAutoSpamWhiteList = 1 (default = 1) If set to 0, we will not add fromID of released mails to autospamwhitelist.
  • Performance Improvement.
  • Latest virus signatures, anti-phish and malware-URL signatures and other few bug fixes added.

New in eScan Anti-Virus 14.0.1400.1587 (Mar 31, 2014)

  • Performance Improvement.
  • Latest virus signatures, anti-phish and malware-URL signatures and other few bug fixes added.

New in eScan Anti-Virus 'h' build 2.6.518 (Jan 16, 2010)

  • Installation: Updated phrases.txt added.
  • MailAdm - "View quarantined messages" option added in Content Admin.
  • MailAdm - Facility to quarantine unscanned att and mails having unscanned att, provided
  • Management Console: Facility given for deploying setup and rule-sets to clients not having TCPIP protocol.
  • *.MWT added to AVPDOS32 exclusion list
  • Added popfileib.exe to include.dat and two files to exclude.dat
  • eScan not send adv. disclaimer if license key is permanent.
  • Updater : Schedule Download invokes download twice - resolved
  • eScan reports to WSC for Monitor status and updates in XP SP2.
  • Scan outgoing mails and scan incoming mails options added in mailadm.
  • MailAdm - Option given in Content Admin to selectively forward/change headers/subject to end-user, for mails tagged as spam.
  • Added icons and version for all executables.
  • Any changes is made in content/webscanning Administrator ask, "please enable email/web scanning in eScan updater for changed to take effect", if email/webscanning not enabled
  • eScanWin giving access violation when we click cancel button during deploy scanning -resolved
  • Updater: Added warning messages if virus signature date is more than 3 days.
  • MailAdm: Quarantine path is added in "eMail attachment Control"
  • We have added FireWall mode.
  • MWAV will not run automatically at startup (on 9x) if system restarted within one hour.
  • Monitor: New Driver files

New in eScan Anti-Virus 2003 'g' build 2.6.501 (Jan 16, 2010)

  • Management Console: "Scan System folder of client(s)" is added in eScan Management console, now we can scan the client system folder from Management Console.
  • Management Console: Corrected some deploy setting and they now work properly.
  • Updater: Our updates mechanism changed little bit. If we haven't get any UDP response with in 150(2 1/2 mins) eScan Client will try to connect the server again, which is in the Ini server entry
  • Updater: Mwav.exe should run at least once in 3 days, Updater will call the exe.
  • ODS: Client cannot delete the Schedule deployed from Server.

New in eScan Anti-Virus 2003 'f' build 2.6.484 (Jan 16, 2010)

  • MailScan: Log file line added if content-check not performed on
  • specific mails.
  • Updates: Default update times reduced from 1440 (24 hours) to 480 (8
  • hours)
  • Terminal Server installation: On eScan Management console, the status
  • of eScan installation on TS used to be wrongly shown. Corrected.
  • Download: If updates are downloaded from a CD, the read-only attribute
  • used to be set. Corrected.
  • ESERV: Option to export status of eScan clients to XLS files added.
  • ExportToExcel value in ESERV.INI. Default is 0.
  • eScan for MailScan: DEBUGES.EXE was missing. Re-added.

New in eScan Anti-Virus 2003 build 2.6.208.8 (Jan 16, 2010)

  • Normal view in MC (Management Console) added. In Network view (which
  • was the only mode present in MC till now), you will see all the domains
  • on the left & can enumerate all the clients inside a domain. In Normal
  • view (new feature added), you can add your own domains & also clients.
  • You can group clients using IP and drag-drop any IP or client to any
  • domain.
  • Because of a bug in scheduling of webscan/webaccess, Content Filter
  • never used to function when scheduling was enabled. Corrected.
  • If blank lines were present in GROUPS file, content-filter used to
  • malfunction. Corrected.
  • Certain more OE & RFC 822 vulnerabilities now taken care of by eMail
  • Scanner.

New in eScan Anti-Virus 2003 build 201 (Jan 16, 2010)

  • Changes in the Management console - eServ
  • Deployment of notification, compression & uncompression.
  • Merge feature for remote settings.
  • Direct deployment of license key.
  • Update report mailed to administrator.
  • Downloads / uploads from secondary to primary server.