McAfee Anti-Malware Engine 5900

McAfee is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for the McAfee 5900 Anti-Malware Engine. The 5900 Engine will replace the current 5800 Anti-Malware Engine.

The McAfee Anti-Malware Engine is the core component at the heart of the award-winning McAfee Endpoint and Gateway products. Using patented technology, the Engine analyzes potentially malicious code to detect and block Trojans, viruses, worms, adware, spyware, and other threats.

We encourage you to actively participate in this program and provide us your valuable feedback.

Release Schedule

The release schedule was changed to take an opportunity to further improve the engine performance in relation to new JavaScript versions based on work undertaken during the cycle.

The current release schedule is as follows:

• 5900 Engine Beta 3 — January 17, 2017
• VirusScan Command Line 6.1.0 products Beta 3 packages — January 21, 2017
• Release Candidate (RC) packages of 5900 Engine & VirusScan Command Line 6.1.0 products — February 15, 2017
• 5900 Engine (Elective download) GA for corporate products (except ENS) & VirusScan Command Line 6.1.0 products GA — late February 2017 *
• 5900 Engine (Elective download) GA for ENS products — early March 2017 *
• 5900 Engine (AutoUpdate) GA for corporate products (except ENS) — late April 2017 *
• 5900 Engine (Throttled deployment) GA for ENS – early May 2017 *

*NOTE: Exact dates will be provided in later announcement(s).

Detection and Performance Enhancements:

• Enhanced support of JavaScript to detect more threats.
• Improved support for Microsoft Office (OLE) file format.
• Improved unpacking of Dotfuscator and MPRESS packed files.
• Enhancements to DAT content to improve predictability of content processing.

Platform Enhancements:

• New supported platforms: Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Windows Server 2016
• End of Life platforms: Hewlett-Packard HP-UX 11iv1, 11iv2