Intel Security 5800 Engine Auto Update scheduled for January 20, 2016

On January 20, 2016, VirusScan Enterprise and other Intel Security Enterprise products that use the Anti-Malware Engine will automatically update to the 5800 Engine as part of the daily DAT update. The DAT update on this day will include an additional ~3.5MB of data due to the 5800 Engine binary being included.

Intel Security first releases the Anti-Malware Engine updates for elective download. This allows you to download Engine packages for manual installation over a period of three months. After the three-month period, the Engine is put on an AutoUpdate posting. This means that your point product will automatically update to the new release. The old Engine reaches end of life six months after elective downloads begin.

The 5800 Anti-Malware Engine succeeds the current 5700 Engine and includes the following improvements:

• Enhancements to Portable Document Format (PDF) format to improve exploit detection capabilities
• Improved handling of Windows Executable format
• Improved unpacking of .NET, Shockwave Flash, Visual Basic for Applications and generic unpacking improvements to detect more threats
• Enhancements to live memory scanning in Windows for detecting and removing malicious processes, threads and files
• Performance optimizations around initialization and scanning
• New supported platforms: Windows 10, FreeBSD 10.x, Solaris 11 for SPARC

NOTE: Windows 10 support is dependent upon the product using the scan engine. For example, both the 5700 and 5800 scan engines support Windows 10 with VirusScan Enterprise 8.8, provided patch 6 is also installed.

IMPORTANT:  VSE 8.7i endpoints must be using VSE 8.7i Patch 5 + Hotfix 1038699 or later to install the 5800 Anti-Malware Engine.

Release Schedule for the 5800 Engine

• RTW (Elective download) September 3, 2015
• Auto-update January 20, 2016

Deployment

5800 Engine ePO packages are available for Linux (32bit and 64bit), Mac OSX and Windows (32bit and 64bit)

You can download the 5800 Engine from the Security Updates page.

For more information about deploying or delaying the 5800 Engine update please refer to KB66741

This information was initially available via the Intel Security SNS Service on January 12th. For more information regarding the Intel SNS please visit the SNS Community