Bugs Fixed:

• BSOD: INVALID_KERNEL_HANDLE (93)
• Problem in uploading file that contains Russian characters.
• SecureAPlus ID is not created when the “About” page is opened.

Enhancements:

• Remove Application Whitelisting settings from the tray icon's context menu.
• User mode applications are signed using dual sign, SHA1 and SHA2.

What's new:

• Added script rule for .hta file.

Bugs Fixed:

• Software update issue: “Server IP address is not defined. Please reinstall SecureAPlus.

Bugs Fixed:

• A lot of prompting after upgrade to Windows 10 if sharing file violation occurred.
• After switching to trust all mode, application whitelisting still prompting for untrusted files.
• Universal AV does not display Good News dialog when the computer is clean.

Enhancements:

• Modify text in the finish inistallation dialog.

What's New:

• ClamAV v0.99
• In Windows 10, SecureAPlus will automatically enable Windows Defender if offline AV is disabled.
• Added into trusted certificates list: Windows Phone, Winrar.

Bugs Fixed:

• Crash with QTTabBar in Windows explorer.
• Crash in KDiff3 when accessing context menu multiple times
• In Windows 10 explorer context menu, the trust level font size becomes smaller when the item is ticked.

Bugs Fixed:

• Truncated description in the restricted application settings.
• In Windows XP, SecureAPlus icon in windows explorer context menu was truncated.

Enhancements:

• Do not automatically show full system scan dialog right after installation.
• Exclude network drive during initial whitelist
• Support transparent background and higher resolution icons in Windows Vista onwards.

Bugs Fixed:

• When trusted by digital signature is set, SecureAPlus still prompt for .msi files that were signed by trusted digital signature.

Enhancements:

• Remove Somoto Ltd. from default trusted certificate list.
• Run offline AV engine in Safe Mode with networking.

Bugs Fixed:

• When there is no offline AV, the real-time scanning does not work properly.

Enhancements:

• Change text for initial full system scan to 'The initial full system scan performs faster while this PC is idle'.

What's New:

• Add Microsoft Edge into restricted application list.
• Silent Mode. To switch to silent mode, right click on SecureAPlus tray icon, and select silent mode from the context menu.

Bugs Fixed:

• After selecting an item, remove and restore button remain disabled in the Quarantine & History.
• Problem in getting new machine id in XP
• SecureAPlus service was not able to start properly in Windows XP

Enhancements:

• Reduce prompting after upgrading to Windows 10
• Change Select all and Unselect all button in Quarantine and history to checkbox header.
• If sascan.sys can't be overwritten during installation, overwrite the file after reboot.

What's New:

• Schedule to automatically clean up antivirus temporary files every 30 minutes.
• Add context menu to open file location in the on demand scanning.
• Add LockCube button that links to LockCube homepage. LockCube is a secure cloud storage solution provided by SecureAge.
• Log file for clamd.

Bugs Fixed:

• Trust all for x minutes does not get back to its original state after it has expired when real-time scanning is disabled.
• Real-time scanning prompts for a file that no longer exists.
• BSOD when right click on an empty CD/DVD drive.

Enhancements:

• Allow to disable any UAV's engine.

What's New:

• Add context menu to go to file location in the threat detected by Universal AV dialog.
• Support upgrade to Windows 10 by temporarily switch to observation mode during upgrade.
• Add searchprotocolhost.exe into restricted application list.

Bugs Fixed:

• Manual or real-time scanning by Universal AV does not work when offline AV is disabled.
• Double fault blue screen on some machines.

What's New:

• Add Bandizip in the restricted application list.

Bugs Fixed:

• When free commander is set as trusted application, after renaming a trusted file, the trust level was not retained.
• Memory leak when modifying tray icon in trust all mode.
• Handle leak in EverythingServer.

Enhancements:

• Modify scanning method to avoid the chance of getting sharing violation.
• Automatically downgrade a trusted installer to trusted application if it is found in the restricted application list.
• User will be notified that he cannot manually set a restricted application file to be a trusted installer, unless the file is removed from the restricted application list.
• For real-time scanning, such as quarantine or delete, if the action taken requires reboot, the user will be prompted. This is usually required if the file is being used, so the action can only be performed after the user has rebooted the machine.
• When Universal AV server is not contactable, it will display more detailed error message.
• Disable scan context menu when UAV and ClamAV are disabled.
• Modification in Application Whitelisting prompting.

What's New:

• Shows number of files unknown to Universal AV in the manual scanning.
• Updated user guide.

Bugs Fixed:

• Operating system was not able to terminate sanotifier.exe during log off, sleep, and hibernation.
• ClamAV did not perform real-time scanning when Universal AV scanning failed.
• Empty license code sometimes was displayed as 0.
• Tray icon was not updated after the mode was reverted back from previous setting to trust all mode temporarily (e.g. 5 minutes) on the main UI.
• Some machines had problem in generating SecureAPlus ID.
• ClamAV signature version number displayed was not updated after the user manually clicked on "Update" virus signature.

Enhancements:

• User can disable UAV without disabling the offline anti-virus (ClamAV). Previously disabling UAV will also cause ClamAV to be disabled.
• Improve initial full system scan.

What's New:

• Add Total Commander in the restricted application list.
• ClamAV engine version 0.98.7.

Bugs Fixed:

• When there is a new version, it is downloaded two times.
• Typo error: "Server recievied new hashes." is changed to "Server received new hashes."
• Do not display "Premium Trial" link for the SecureAPlus that is managed by SecureAge Management Server.
• When there is an error while importing whitelist from Application Whitelisting GUI, it shows blank error message.
• In some situations (when session changed), Application Whitelisting prompting does not appear.

Enhancements:

• For Windows 8 or later, if ClamAV is disabled, SecureAPlus can work along with Microsoft Windows Defender.
• For online SecureAPlus installer, if initially the user installs full, then unticks the offline antivirus, the offline antivirus will remain unticked on subsequent installation.
• Optimization in the real-time scanning by ClamAV.
• Includes credits for Everything by David Carpenter in the EULA.
• After license code is activated, the license code will be displayed in the UI. The license expiry date will also be displayed.

What's New:

• Display license expiry date in the About->License. The Expiry date will be changed when the user updates the license code.
• Added Tor browser (tor.exe) in the restricted application list.
• Added ace32loader.exe n the restricted application list.
• Support predefined configuration in autoconf.ini file

Bugs Fixed:

• Installation cannot proceed when it is not able to launch license.exe (e.g. because other third party antivirus blocked the file while scanning).
• Checking if file index server is available sometimes does not response for a long time.
• Typo in Application Whitelisting Standard Mode descriptions. Change "program" to "programs".
• In some cases, SecureAPlus ID was overwritten during new ID creation.

Enhancements:

• For manual scanning dialog, checkbox for item with virus will only be ticked if it is detected by more than 1 AV engine.
• For Universal AV engine exclusions list, to ensure the AV engines are up to date, internet access is required to retrieve the latest AV engines list.
• Do not retry if there is an error while scanning a file in real-time scanning
• Change dialog title from "SecureAge AntiVirus" to "SecureAPlus AntiVirus".
• In Application Whitelisting, when a file is detected as virus, change the default button to "No" (do not trust).
• Application Whitelisting will automatically use VirusTotal if there is an error when trying to access UAV server.
• Change text for full system scan to:
  "You can continue using your computer while scanning. If you need to shutdown during scanning, it will auto-resume on your next reboot. * Full system scan smartly performs faster while computer is idle."

What's New:

• ClamAV version 0.98.6.
• Include Flash shockwave file in the real-time scanning and UAV.
• Immediately scan auto run file during full system scan, so it can prompt the user earlier when it finds some auto run viruses without waiting for the initial full system scan to complete.
• In Application Whitelisting prompt dialog, when a virus is detected by UAV, display more details if user clicks on the threat name.

Enhancements:

• Improve manual scanning speed by detecting whether the computer is in idle state. The manual scanning will speed up if the computer is idle (no user input, such as keyboard or mouse movement).
• Improve real-time scanning speed by reducing the temporary files written to the disk.
• Prevent double scanning when executing an untrusted application by AntiVirus and Application Whitelisting.
• For scheduled automatic scanning by UAV, do not show the scan result again if the result is the same as the previous result, until the machine is rebooted.

What's New:

• Manual scanning shows an icon that indicate if there is no access to Universal AV (e.g. no internet access or if the server is down)
• Prevent saappsvc.exe and sanotifier.exe to be terminated using Windows 8 Task Manager.
• Send checksum for file integrity check when uploading a sample file to the server.
• Set Company Name (Manufacturer) property for Universal AV Service.
• New schemes for extending SecureAPlus license.
• Premium version trial for freemium users.

Bugs Fixed:

• In some situations, compact whitelist crash at the end of the process.
• Memory leak in compact whitelist.
• When an action is taken for UAV manual scanning, the engine name was recorded wrongly.

Enhancements:

• In the Quarantine and history, change a column name, from "Item" to "Virus name"

What's New:

• Universal AV engine exclusion. Currently only the following engines are allowed to be disabled: AVG, ClamWin, Norman, QuickHeal, TotalDefense.
• Universal AV can be used to scan .vbs files in manual or real-time scanning.

Bugs Fixed:

• During uninstallation, some temporary files were not deleted.
• EverythingServer uses 50% CPU when multiple users login using Remote Desktop.
• For manual scanner, when an action is taken, the status was not written at the correct column.
• Crash when scanning using Dr.Web CureIt!

Enhancements:

• Change the search file engine for Universal AV.
• SecureAPlus UI will show lockdown mode for non-trusted account users.
• For full system scan, previously the very long file name is shown with elipsis at the end of the file name. Change the elipsis to the middle of the file name.
• Improve Compact Whitelist speed.
• SecureAPlus initial system scan will automatically slow down if the computer is not in idle state, and it will speed up again when there is no activity from the user.
• Reduce the memory usage by the initial full system scan.

What's New:

• Added more log for Universal AV.
• Compact whitelist will also trigger Universal AV server to refresh the whitelist database.

Bugs Fixed:

• In a certain condition, the exclusion list doesn't work properly.

Enhancements:

• Reduce prompting for untrusted file, especially when the untrusted file is not executed by user.
• Wait until the CPU resource is low enough before starting initial system scan. The maximum waiting time is 5 minutes.
• Improve the process of adding new trusted certificate.
• Increase time out for uploading whitelist hashes to the server.
• Improve uninstallation process.
• Increase the time out for auto start services.

What's New:

• Compact whitelist database feature.
• Remove Quarantine and History during uninstallation.

Bugs Fixed:

• Cut off text in higher resolution when performing initial system scan.
• When initial full system scan is not completed yet, last system scan status was blinking.
• When UAV is disabled, setting "Good News" popup dialog will cause it to revert back to its previous value without any proper explanation to the user.
• In some cases, SecureAPlus failed to update its status to Security Action Center.

Enhancements:

• Delete some of UAV temporary files that are no longer needed.
• Prevent showing "Threat detected" when UAV is showing the list of detected malwares.
• If untrusted application is run by non-trusted account, add a message saying: "If you want to run this, please contact your administrator."
• Optimization in the rename operation.
• Change "Allow once" to "Ignore once". Change "Ignore" to "Ignore permanently"
• Change protocol for uploading data to the server.

What's New:

• Add ace2loader.exe in the restricted application list.

Enhancements:

• Process optimization in Universal AV.
• Allow users to import whitelist even when the Full System Scan is still in progress.
• Change the title of the "SecureAge Antivirus Scanner" message prompt to "SecureAPlus Virus Scanner".
• Revised user guide.

Bugs Fixed:

• Certain portion of SecureAPlus Main Console's display flickers on some computers.
• At the "Application Whitelisting Advanced Settings" dialog, after pressing "Esc" twice on the keyboard, the "Application Whitelisting Standard Mode" dialog will disappear.
• After clicking on "Complete Scan" button manually, the Universal AV scan results may show fewer infected files than the actual number of infected files at times.
• "sascan.sys" was not deleted after uninstallation.

Enhancements:

• Modify the way how file indexing service handles moved folder. In the previous version, when renaming a folder that has a lot of content, it may get lock for quite some time.
• Change the header of the Universal AV virus alert from "Threat detected!" to "Threat detected by Universal AV!".
• Make File Indexer Service independent of Universal AV. Reindexing is no longer required when toggling Universal AV status.
• Only users in the Trusted Account list are allowed to modify the content in the "Manage User Rights".
• There are a few changes to "SecureAPlus Successful Installation" message prompt:
  • The "Scanning Options" has been removed from this message prompt. Click on the "Next" button to view and select your preferred scannning options.
    
    
  • Change the text from "The full system scanning is about to commence." to "The full system scanning will commence after you click on next button."
• By default, the full system scanning speed is set to normal.

What's New:

• Integrate VirusTotal to Application Whitelisting message prompt.
• Add in the disable option for the "Good News" message prompt which appears after each reboot.
  
  
• Add "Torch" browser, "Internet Download Manager", "BitTorrent", "qBittorent" and "uTorrent" to the "Restricted Application list".
• Default browser is automatically included in the "Restricted Application" list.
• Report SecureAPlus version number to the server.
• New export/import whitelist file format to support future communication with SecureAge Management Server.
• SecureAPlus User Guide now includes an explanation on the usage of Trusted Users and Trusted Groups.

Bugs Fixed:

• The last Complete Scan's date is not updated at times.
• Unable to apply the setting to enable both Universal AV and Offline Antivirus with no real-time scanning.

Enhancements:

• When click on the "Cancel" button in the "Settings", it will no longer just close the dialog box. If any changes are made to the settings, it will now cancel and revert the changes back to the previous setting. Note: If you have already confirmed the changes by clicking on the "Apply" button, you cannot revert the changes by clicking on the "Cancel" button.
• Previously, when both Universal AV and Offline Antivirus are disabled, it will show "At Risk" status on SecureAPlus Main Console and the computer has to be rebooted to reflect the "Fully Protected" status. But now, it will immediately show that the computer is "Fully Protected" without having to reboot the computer. Note: Reboot of the computer is required if you want to unload the Offline Antivirus from the memory.
• To minimize user's confusion, the names of the Antivirus Settings options have been changed from "Disable Universal AV" to "Enable Universal AV" and from "Disable Offline Antivirus" to "Enable Offline Antivirus"
• The typo error for the word "deleted" at the Universal AV log has been rectified.
• In order to make the "Good News" message prompt less intrusive to the users, its size has been reduced significantly and the duration of its stay on-screen has been shortened to 15 seconds.
• Revised SecureAPlus User Guide.

What's New:

• Add WinZip and HaoZip to the "Restricted Applications" list.
• When a user attempts to delete the system accounts in the "Manage User Rights" settings, it will now prompt the user that these accounts will not be deleted as they are the default system accounts required for the proper functioning of the operating system.
• Add the file compression capability to Universal AV file upload in order to optimize the Internet bandwidth usage.

Bugs Fixed:

• "Check for update" message prompt was not displayed properly when the location of the taskbar is not at the bottom of the screen.
• Several memory leak issues.

Enhancements:

• In the virus alert prompt, the word "Allow" is changed to "Allow once" and "Ignore permanently" is changed to "Ignore".
  
• In the "SecureAPlusSetup.exe" installer, "Antivirus" is changed to "Offline Antivirus".
  
• Revised End User License Agreement.

What's New:

• Newly added component, Universal AV which provides continuous scanning of program files (executables) by multiple antivirus in the cloud.
• A complete new look in the GUI.
• An online store is added for the purchase of SecureAPlus Premium.
• Existing SecureAPlus Freemium user will get a message prompt regarding the upgrade to the latest version of SecureAPlus which comes with Universal AV.

Bugs Fixed:

• New driver installation was not trusted at times.
• SecureAPlus' dialog position is not within the screen display area when the task bar is not at the bottom.
• Memory leak in the Application Whitelisting service.

Modifications:

• Improve background initial whitelisting speed.
• Trusted installer will not automatically trust a newly created large file if it is not an executable file in order to improve the performance of VMWare.
• Modifications at the "Quarantine and History" dialog box in preparation for the new Universal AV component in the revamped version of SecureAPlus.

Bugs Fixed:

• Service installation crash in some foreign languages (other than English).

What's New:

• Obfuscate quarantined file to prevent it from being detected as virus by any antivirus.
• Suppress antivirus installation warning in Windows XP.
• Register as antivirus at the "Action Center" (or "Security Center" in Windows XP).

Bugs Fixed:

• After a software update, SecureAPlus with No Antivirus will become SecureAPlus Full Version.
• Cygwin installation issue.
• SecureAPlus' quarantine dialog box does not appear in Windows 8.1.
• SecureAPlus' GUI problem for Windows 8.1 users. When attempting to perform a manual scan, the file directory is not displayed for selection.
• Optimizing SecureAPlus for VMWare.

Enhancements:

• "Restricted Application" is changed to "Restricted Applications".
• Comodo Dragon Browser (dragon.exe) is added to the list of restricted applications.

What's New:

• Besides whitelist database, other settings like "Trusted Certificates" and "Trusted accounts" are also saved in the exported whitelist.
• If any "Trusted Installer" file is found to be set as "Trusted Application" while executing it, it will be automatically reverted back to "Trusted Installer" on the fly.
• More speed options are added to the initial whitelisting process: Slow, Normal and Fast.
  
• After installation, SecureAPlus will check the CPU usage before starting the background initial whitelisting process. The whitelisting process will start only when the CPU usage is less than 50%.
• A message is added after the installation is completed.
  
• SecureAPlus Installation Guide and User Guide are updated.

Bugs Fixed:

• There will be double entry in freshclam.conf when virus signature server is modified.
• Crashing of sanotifier.exe.

Enhancements:

• Notification for new update dialog will auto close if unattended for 1 hour, instead of 1 minute.
• After initial whitelisting is completed, there will be no more retry of those files that failed to be whitelisted during the initial whitelisting process. The retry of such files will be removed.
• The "Do not ask what to do when dealing with untrusted file" option is removed from the Application Whitelisting Advanced Settings. You can chooose this feature, which is now known as "Lockdown Mode", from the context menu of SecureAPlus tray icon.
• When any script (not an installer script) start to create executable, it will be blocked automatically. This is to prevent users from accidentally set an interpreter as an installer on the fly.

What's New:

• Trust all mode is added to the context menu of SecureAPlus tray icon.
• Two speed options, Fast and Slow, are now available for the background initial whitelisting. The current default setting is Slow.
• Add the following files to Restricted Applications list: javaws.jar, deploy.jar, 7z.exe, 7zfm.exe, Excel.exe, winword.exe, mspub.exe, powerpnt.exe, infopath.exe, msaccess.exe, acrord32.exe, telnet.exe, putty.exe, puttytel.exe and pscp.exe.
• More log information for script execution.
• You can now import whitelist database in the small setup file, "SecureAPlusSetup.exe" too. The steps to do it is the same as the big setup file. Please refer to SecureAPlus Installation Guide for more information.
• If the installer detect a whitelist database file, it will prompt the user whether to import whitelist database.
• SecureAPlus Installation Guide and User Guide are updated.

Bugs Fixed:

• When the virus scanning driver is not running, an attempt to install SecureAPlus again fails to reinstall the scanning driver at the same time.
• BSOD when Microsoft Security Essential is scanning the page file.

Enhancements:

• ".zip" is not included for real-time scanning.
• All Window files and Program files are not blocked during initial whitelisting.
• The size of SecureAPlus with AV installer has been reduced.
• When multiple files are blocked, only one message popup will appear. Users can click on the "Previous" hyperlink to see a list of files that were blocked previously.
  

What's New:

• A new context menu is added. There are two Application Whitelisting options, "Interactive Mode" and "Lockdown Mode".
  
  When SecureAPlus is in "Interactive Mode", users when attempting to run a file that is not found in the trusted list, will be prompted whether to trust it. When SecureAPlus is in "Lockdown Mode", files that are not found in the trusted list will be blocked automatically. If you want to install any program that is not in the trusted list, please remember to trust it as an installer first. Otherwise, the installation program will be blocked from running.
  
• A message bubble will appear once the initial whitelisting process is completed.
  
• To avoid confusion, the version number has been removed from the Application Whitelisting dialog box.
  

Bugs Fixed:

• Running web browser inside Sandboxie will cause Sandboxie to freeze.
• When right-click on a single file, the "Show all trust level" menu option can be seen at times.
  
• When performing auto update, SecureAPlus application will crash while downloading the new installer.
• Application Whitelisting service keeps on trying to whitelist the same file repeatedly. This occurs to those files that could not be read during the inital whitelist or a file that has been overwritten with a new file.
• The uninstaller did not delete the driver files for 64-bit computer.
• SecureAPlus tray icon disappears during startup.
• For installation without antivirus, the uninstall shortcut does not appear at the start menu.
• Freezing issue after initial uninstallation.

Enhancements:

• If the user is running as an Admin account, the log will be written to the "ProgramData" folder instead of User's "App Data" folder in the C drive.
• Improves the uninstallation speed.
• For first time installation, Application Whitelisting will perform initial whitelist only when the service has started.

What's New:

• Adds "git.exe" and "tortoisegitproc.exe" to the "Restricted Application" list.
• Adds in survey for uninstallation.
• Default ClamAV virus signature is updated to 16 August 2013.

Bugs Fixed:

• BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) during uninstallation.

Enhancement:

• To avoid confusion, only SecureAPlus tray icon will be displayed during the initial whitelisting process.
• "Close after ...s" message will not be shown when blocking a file.
• Enhances the responsiveness of the "Finish" button when users click on it during installation.
• Improves on the log file to allow better troubleshooting when installation failed.
• Adds in updated SecureAPlus User Guide and Installation Guide.

What's New:

• SecureAPlus Application Whitelisting protection will commence immediately after installation.
• Download will resume automatically if the previous connection was disrupted.
• Simplified SecureAPlus Referral Program so that user can participate right after the successful installation of SecureAPlus Freemium on a computer. The user license will be extended automatically once his or her referral has installed SecureAPlus Freemium on a computer.