The long-awaited Outpost 7 is ready!

We are happy to announce the official release of the Outpost 7 product line! As the products are finally here, we'd like to thank everyone who stepped along with us in this long journey, namely our devoted beta-testers, enthusiastic customers and all of you who contributed thoughts and ideas to this release! Congratulations!

As you surely know, Outpost Pro 7 encompasses three solutions: Outpost Security Suite Pro, Outpost Firewall Pro and Outpost Antivirus, all available for download at www.agnitum.com/products/

Now let's get to the final feature list. What's special and what's new in Outpost Security Suite Pro 7?

New! System and Application Guard

System and Application Guard delivers comprehensive protection against zero-day threats, ensuring that even the newest malware will not be able to access critical personal data. The new Application Guard monitors all locations where instant messenger applications, browsers, and electronic payment processors store sensitive personal data (cached login details and passwords, electronic wallet IDs, etc.) to protect the data from being accessed and hijacked by unauthorized and unrelated applications. The feature flexibly secures all sorts of private information (not limited to just passwords or IDs) however variable it may be as stored by commonly used applications.

New! File and Folder Lock

File and Folder Lock enables protection of locally-stored assets against access or corruption by malware. Users can simply highlight a folder or file using Outpost’s advanced menu and set a password. With just a few clicks, private, secret or otherwise sensitive content, secured by the Outpost configuration password, is secured against access by children, colleagues, and other users of the computer, as well as from external threats such as spyware.

Improved! Anti-Malware

• The option to automatically remediate infections detected by the real-time monitor is now the default action to speed clean-up and return to productivity
• Quarantine now also facilitates decision-making about neutralized suspicious objects
• quarantined files can be easily restored or destroyed, separately or in bulk, from the menu with just a couple of clicks
• The heuristic analyzer (HAX) engine, which analyzes suspicious behavior in autorun objects, is now accessible through the user interface
• Quick engine updates: The new anti-malware engine automatically updates itself as part of the regular malware database update process; no separate product update is needed.

New! File and registry activity monitor

An invaluable aid for advanced users, the monitor provides a big picture of current file and registry activity. The user can analyze every active process, its path and time as well as track registry modifications in order to take action with Outpost's ample functionality. Besides, one may opt to take a snapshot of the monitor's records for deeper analysis or, if required, terminate a suspicious process right from the on-screen list.

Improved! Updated anti-leak capabilities

Outpost 7.0 continues to enhance the software’s anti-leak arsenal to address the latest zero-day threats and data leakage techniques employed by sophisticated malware.

New! Revamped user interface

The solutions were redesigned to reflect the Windows 7 look and feel, and to provide better visibility for product notifications.

Improved! Optimized performance

Outpost 7.0 solutions deliver improved performance and use fewer system resources thanks to a number of measures:

• Intelligent filtering of P2P channels
• A more efficient anti-malware update process
• Greater interoperability with applications and web sites using Middle Eastern and Asian character sets

New! Extended compatibility

Outpost 7.0 has been designed to be fully compatible with Windows 7, Vista (up to SP2), Windows XP (up to SP3), Windows Server 2003 and 2008, as well as all previous 32-bit versions from Windows 2000 onwards and all 64-bit Windows.

System requirements

All three products will work best on a 450 MHz or faster CPU (x86-/x64-/multi-core) with 256Mb RAM and 50/150/200 Mb (for Firewall, Antivirus and Security Suite, respectively).

Same as with interim stages we urge you to share your feedback on the officially released Outpost 7! Thanks for being with us!

Pavel Goryakin
Agnitum

Outpost 7 - introducing the public release candidate

We're approaching the official release of Outpost 7 - our new product line (Outpost Security Suite Pro, Outpost Firewall Pro, Outpost Antivirus Pro 7.0). As you already know, these new products incorporate a modern approach to combating ID theft by specifically protecting cached personal data (stored by browsers, IMs, etc.), also they add a handful of new privacy and security features.

We're sure you'll be interested to know in advance and take a look at the release candidate version.

Once again, here's a taster of what's new and what's special in Outpost Security Suite Pro 7.0:

• protection for cached login details and passwords, electronic wallet IDs, etc. stored by the browser, IM exchanges, and electronic payment processors – to resist personal data theft and zero-day threats
• protection against malware corruption for locally-stored digital valuables
• file and registry activity monitor - for deep analysis of ongoing events
• updated user interface and compatibility following the introduction of Windows 7
• new iteration of the heuristic module (HAX – heuristic analyzer X)
• restored "stop words" web filter which traces back to the earlier versions of Outpost

Improvements to existing functionality include:

• enhanced scanning performance and usability
• extended anti-leak functionality
• the new auto-updated antimalware engine certified by VB100
• firewall tweaks: smooth transition to Windows Filtering Platform and decreased channel load.

To cut the long story short, release candidate version of all three solutions (firewall, antivirus, security suite) are already available for download.

Many thanks to all Outpost beta-testers, your feebdack has resulted in precious improvements and tweaks! We still need your help on this stage, so let's do it together!

Pavel Goryakin
Agnitum