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a-squared Anti-Malware/Free:

- Changed signature db format. That requires a new download of all signatures during online update.

a-squared Anti-Malware:

- Improved scan engine with several minor bugfixes, extended scan features and speed improvements.

- Fixed false alert filter bug in the onExecution scan guard.

- Signature database cleanup

- Improved anti-malware network functionality

a-squared Free:

- Improved scan engine with several minor bugfixes, extended scan features and speed improvements.

- Signature database cleanup

- Improved anti-malware network functionality

a-squared Anti-Malware/Free:

- Improved scan engine with several minor bugfixes, extended scan features and speed improvements.

a-squared Anti-Malware:

- Fixed false alert filter bug in the onExecution scan guard.

a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5.0.27:

- Log section speedup.

- Plaintext password transmission on file submits changed to crypted.

- Cookie scanner bug fixed.

- Memory usage optimizations.

- Introducing new header image with new icon style.

- Bug with 4 updater retry fails fixed.

- Engine and quarantine bugfixes.

- Changed default action to "block" in alert windows.

- Crash while adding objects to whitelist during scan fixed.

a-squared Free 4.5.0.21:

- Log section speedup.

- Plaintext password transmission on file submits changed to crypted.

- Cookie scanner bug fixed.

- Memory usage optimizations.

- Introducing new header image with new icon style.

- Bug with 4 updater retry fails fixed.

- Engine and quarantine bugfixes.

- Crash while adding objects to whitelist during scan fixed.

Mamutu 2.0.0.22:

- Log section speedup.

- Plaintext password transmission on file submits changed to crypted.

- Memory usage optimizations.

- Bug with 4 updater retry fails fixed.

- Changed default action to "block" in alert windows.

a-squared Anti-Malware/Free/Mamutu:

- Log section sorting speed up.

- Plaintext password transmission on file submits changed to crypted.

- Bugfixes

a-squared Anti-Malware/Free:

- Cookie scanner bug fixed.

- Memory usage optimizations.

a-squared Anti-Malware/Free:

- Introducing new header image with new icon style.

- Bug with 4 updater retry fails fixed.

a-squared Anti-Malware/Free:

- Engine and quarantine bugfixes.

a-squared Anti-Malware/Free/Mamutu:

- Changed default action to "block" in alert windows.

- Crash while adding objects to whitelist during scan fixed.

a-squared Anti-Malware/Free/Mamutu:

- Bugfixes for more stability of the core service application.

a-squared Anti-Malware/Free:

- 70% faster memory scan!

a-squared Anti-Malware/Free:

- Improved cleaning engine (ACL takeover added)

- Bugfixes in memory scan detections cleaning 

a-squared Anti-Malware Guard/Mamutu:

- Crash on shutdown fixed.

- Sorted tab order on alert windows to simplify keyboard shortcuts.

a-squared Anti-Malware/Free:

- Submit bug fixed.

- Minor GUI behavior changes.

a-squared Free/Anti-Malware:

- CAB handling bug in scan engine fixed.

a-squared Free/Anti-Malware:

- Improved cleaning engine

- Submit bug fixed

a-squared Anti-Malware:

- Crash on wizard end fixed

a-squared Anti-Malware/Mamutu:

- Minor changes of alert system

- a-squared Anti-Malware Guard: Colored alerts bugfix.

a-squared Free:

- New cleaning engine.

a-squared Anti-Malware:

- New cleaning engine

- Introducing colored alert windows

- Changed window focus behavior on alerts

Mamutu:

- Changed window focus behavior on alerts

- a-squared Anti-Malware: Windows Security Center bugfix.

- Scan engine: Bug when storing whitelist on portable device fixed.

- a-squared Anti-Malware/Free/Mamutu: Engine update, preparations for new cleaning engine.

a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5.0.21:

- Scanner: Engine update for more stability and with performance optimizations.

- Bug in permission settings fixed.

- Guard: Freeze bug fixes.

- Crash in cookie scan fixed.

- Bugfixes.

a-squared Free 4.5.0.11:

- Engine update for more stability and with performance optimizations.

- New icon: Silver version.

- Bugfixes.

a-squared Commandline Scanner 4.5.0.8:

- New icon

- Bugfixes.

- a-squared Anti-Malware/Free: Engine update for more stability and with performance optimizations.

Mamutu 2.0 release:

- Improved alert windows. Alerts are now split into two groups. Red and orange alerts. Red alerts are detected high risk behaviors that are close to 100% sure real malwares. Orange alerts show actions that could be dangerous in specific context or should always be confirmed by the user such as new autoruns, new drivers and services installations, hosts file changes and some others.

- Detection for low level HDD access added. Some malwares use this technique to manipulate boot sectors or delete files.

- Improved false alert filters based on code signing certificates. Digitally signed files of trusted vendors are handled different to unsigned files.

- Improved updater system. Files are transferred as packed and crypted data to avoid proxy troubles and speed up the download.

- GUI fine tuning and lots of minor bugfixes.

- a-squared Anti-Malware: Bug in permission settings fixed.

- a-squared Anti-Malware Guard: Freeze bug fixes.

- Mamutu: Language selection bug fixed. Added last update date on tray icon mouseover text.

- a-squared Anti-Malware Guard: Crash in cookie scan fixed.

- a-squared Free icon changed

- Mamutu support for packed updates added. Introduced version 2.0 beta. Minor fixes.

a-squared Anti-Malware:

- Surf protection bug fixed

- Incompatibilities fixed

Mamutu:

- Strange updater behavior bug fixed

a-squared Anti-Malware/Mamutu:

- Fixed several compatability issues with several applications. Fixed a bug inside the paranoid detection routines that caused more detections than usual. Added selective onaccess scanning.

- a-squared Anti-Malware/Mamutu: Fixed a bug that could result in paranoid detections that shouldn't take place. Changed the behavior of process exclusion for compatibility reasons.

a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5.0.19:

- Introducing new icons for main app, scanner, guard and wizard

- Freeze bug fixed

- File count bug in scanner fixed

- ADS scanner bug fixed

- Firefox cookie detection bug fixed

- Quarantine rescan feature improved

- Update system improved: Updates are transferred packed and crypted now to avoid proxy troubles

- Default sort order in logs changed (newest first)

- Popup display bug fixed

a-squared Free 4.5.0.8:

- Introducing new icon

- File count bug in scanner fixed

- ADS scanner bug fixed

- Firefox cookie detection bug fixed

- Quarantine rescan feature improved

- Update system improved: Updates are transferred packed and crypted now to avoid proxy troubles

- a-squared Free/Anti-Malware Scanner: Fixed Firefox cookie detection bug.

- a-squared Anti-Malware Guard: Fixed popup box display bug.

- Mamutu: Added color scheme for alert windows (orange medium risk and red high risk alerts).

- a-squared Anti-Malware: Improved update: Files are transferred packed and crypted, new main icon, changed default sort order in logs

- a-squared Anti-Malware Guard/Wizard/Free: Minor GUI improvements

- a-squared Scanner: New tray animation when minimized

- Mamutu: Changed default sort order in logs

- a-squared Free, Anti-Malware Scanner, Wizard: New icon

- a-squared Anti-Malware: Improved quarantine rescan feature

- Anti-Malware/Free/Cmd Scanner: Fixed ADS scan bug in scan engine.

a2free only:

- Improved update: Files are transferred packed and crypted now. Reason: Some internet proxies filter and/or manipulate PE files (.exe) and then the update fails. We have switched the internal data format to a crypted and packed file layout to avoid these troubles and save server bandwidth.

- Context menu: Fixed network share scan bug

- Commandline Scanner: Fixed error level bug

- a-squared Free: Fixed file count bug while scanning

- Anti-Malware Scanner/Wizard: Fixed file count bug while scanning

- Anti-Malware/Mamutu Guard: Fixed IDS freeze bug

- Anti-Malware Guard: Introduced new tray icon.