We're happy to announce that after many months of development we are finally releasing our Panda Engine version 1.4.3. Some of the most significant improvements made are:
- Improved support for Office12 formats
- Improved support of .SIS formats
- Support of Vista platform
- Support of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) formats
- Support of Flash, Nullsoft 2x and WinAce 2.0 formats
- Improved analysis of hidden processes
- Low-level rootkit scanning for NTFS, FAT32, FAT16 and FAT12
- Remote thread scanning to detect certain rootkits
- Improved Genetic Heuristic Engine (GHE) version 6.2.1
- Plugin for generic unpacker engine to support additional formats
- Detection of "exepacker_of_death" for files using multiple packed layers
- Scan support of Windows Restore Points
This new engine will de deployed progressively to all our products over the next couple of months. Watch this space for the release of a new Panda Scanner (command-line) and EngineAPI that makes use of this new engine.