The newest release of the Metascan antivirus SDK adds a significant number of enhancements. These improvements increase Metascan's effectiveness, functionality and deployment capabilities. If you are looking to license a complete scanning solution, look no further than the new, improved Metascan.
Evaluators and users: We would like to encourage you to purchase or renew your licenses soon. Pricing will increase beginning November 1, 2009.
Among the many improvements, the product now features:
- Boot sector scanning
- Scan result caching
- Addition of the Quick Heal antivirus engine - Ultra only
- URL filtering - Ultra only
- Metascan Remote Client, allowing users to scan files with a remotely deployed Metascan server using a single CLI
2.6 Full Release Notes:
- Added Quick Heal engine
- Added support of boot sector scan
- Updated Norman engine
- New MSI-based installer
- Added ability to analyze URL for categories
- Extended Java API (Refer to Java API doc)
- Added support for stopping ongoing scan (For more details, see the StopScan API in Software Developer Guide)
- Improved scanning performance further using caching mechanism
- Added ability to detect encrypted archive
- Added support for logging to remote DBMS (MS SQL Server)
- Added remote CLI client (For more details, Remote Client CLI section in Software Developer Guide)
- Added support of quarantining file as clean action
- Added Quarantine Manager CLI (For more details, Quarantine Manager section in Software Developer Guide)
- Added ability to look up scan result of files based on its hash (For more details, ScanEx API in Software Developer Guide)
- Added more configuration options for logging (enable/disable File Type Detection during logging)
- Improved handing of scan conflict with pre-installed engine's real-time protection during the extraction of archive file
- Added support of file with its name longer than 260 characters
- Enhanced file type detections and added new file type shorts
- Improved logging of buffer scan
- Added Metascan configurator (For more details, Import/Export Configuration section in Software Developer Guide)
- Added support on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server R2
