Even though it’s just barely 10 days since we announced our last 7.00 beta release, we’re today presenting another one.

This time around we’ve got a couple of new features, although most of the work has gone into overall quality and stability improvements, much like with the last release. The manual scanning wizard has been redesigned to show a progress bar during scanning, and the Summary screen has gotten a new row showing the current Integrity Checking status, which also gives the user an opportunity to initialize the file system baseline and enable the rootkit protection through a wizard. The on-access scanner component has been removed from the `fschooser‘ program - instead the user can disable the Real-time Scanning feature completely by setting “Virus Protection” and “Integrity Protection” to “Disabled” in the web user interface.

Here are the usual links - full package: f-secure-linux-security-7.00.64805.tgz (MD5, SHA1). As always, please read the release notes and send us feedback to the address at the bottom of this page.

Hot off our build and test systems comes the Linux Security 7.00 Beta release!

Since Technology Preview 3, we have mostly been working on bug fixing and stability improvements. There has been quite a lot of “behind the scenes” work in our infrastructure - such as enhanced test environments - that may not be immediately noticeable, but in the long run it will result in a higher over-all quality of all our releases. Apart from those quality improvements, the manual scanning wizard through the web user interface has gotten a facelift, so that it will now do scanning in the background, providing better feedback for the users.

The beta package can be downloaded here: f-secure-linux-security-7.00.6442.tgz (MD5, SHA1). As always, please read the release notes and send us feedback to the address at the bottom of this page.