MetaDefender Drive™ v4.1.2 Release: Enhanced Performance and Improved User Experience

Jan 15, 2025 by OPSWAT

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OPSWAT is excited to announce the release of MetaDefender Drive v4.1.2. This release comes with performance, user experience, and localization enhancements, offering a better scanning experience.

What’s New in MetaDefender Drive v4.1.2?

Better Visibility into the Engine Initialization Process

MetaDefender Drive’s Archive and FileType engines are essential to ensure efficient and accurate scanning and file analysis. In the v4.1.2 release, the Archive and FileType engines have been added to the Engines interface to increase users’ visibility into the engine initialization process.

Displays the status of engines like Archive Extraction (Active) and FileType (Downloaded) on the interface — Archive and FileType engines on the Engines interface

Full Storage Alert

The increase in the locally stored scan reports results in slowing down both scans and report management. Users will now be alerted when the number of the locally stored reports exceeds 100 or the Drive storage is almost full.

Warning displayed when saved scan reports exceed 100, suggesting removal of outdated reports — Alert message when the number of saved scan reports exceeds 100

Users can efficiently delete the stored reports based on the file format or the OPSWAT Central Management sync status from Settings → Preferences.

Found under Settings → Preferences, allows deletion of stored reports to optimize performance — Delete reports at Settings → Preferences

Enhanced User Experience

More accurate scan time estimates: The calculation of the estimated scan time has been improved to display more accurate time, and the freezing issue of the elapsed time progress bar has been resolved.

Auto Actions option: An option to skip the manual network configuration prompt before scans has been added under Settings → Preferences → Auto Actions.

Located in Settings → Preferences, enabling automatic configuration of non-essential settings before scanning — Settings → Preferences → Auto Actions option

Multilingual Support in 12 Languages

This release comes with enhanced localization support, covering key interface elements in the following 12 languages: English, Dutch, German, Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, and Polish.

Language selection menu offering multiple languages for MetaDefender Drive — Multilingual support

Scan Performance Optimization

Storage Optimization

During the scanning process, a decrease in available disk space can impact performance. Within the series of performance optimizations included in this release, an option to skip non-essential logs has been added to MetaDefender Drive’s settings.

Highlights the Log Level feature to manage the amount of logs saved for disk space optimization — The new Log Level settings give the user the ability to save disk space by skipping non-essential logs

For a smooth scanning experience, it is recommended to set the Log Level settings to Optimized. For troubleshooting purposes, keeping the Log Level settings as the default option is essential to include more system information and insights. You can learn more about troubleshooting here.

Allows users to choose "Default" for full compliance or "Optimized" for skipping non-essential logs — Log Level Settings

Max File Size Optimization

The maximum file size limit is now optimized for balanced performance and better system resource management. Users can now set a limit within a pre-defined range, ensuring faster scans while minimizing the possibility of scan failures due to disk space overuse.

Critical Issue Fixes

Resolved freezing elapsed time tracker.
Resolved MAC address not being recognized on some devices.

MetaDefender Drive Toolkit v 3.5.2 

Alongside the MetaDefender Drive v4.1.2 release, the MetaDefender Drive Toolkit v3.5.2 release comes with performance enhancements and a new key addition. A safe removal prompt that follows clicking the safe ejection button enables users to determine if MetaDefender Drive has been safely ejected. This feature aims to reduce the risk of unintentionally corrupting MetaDefender Drive by physically removing it from the target device before it has been safely ejected from the system.