FS Protection PC Release Notes - Release 163
This release contains following applications that combined make the FS Protection PC product:
Common Component Framework 2.63.271
Antivirus 14.163.100
Browsing protection 2.163 build 4066
FS Protection is a continuous preview program for our product development and is meant only for pre-release testing. The aim is to provide a preview of the upcoming features, and at the same time receive feedback on how to improve the features before releasing the final product.
What's New
TP163:
TP162:
TP161:
Installation and System Requirements
Known limitations
Known issues
Contact Information and Feedback
What's New
TP163:
New features
Common:
Upgrade is saved to event history with a link to upgrade message. The next upgrade after this will no longer prompt for approval.
User identification during installation changed. You may see slightly changed flow when doing a new installation from FS Protection portal.
Browsing Protection:
Browser block page has now category icon(s) and description(s) if blocking was done because of category content filtering.
Fixed issues
Common:
Unnecessary debug folder created to disk (CTS-97602)
Universal System Scanner update keeps reinstalling (CTS-97631)
Installation may fail on non-English Windows 10 (CTS-97613)
Antivirus:
Virus infection real-time detection prompt action choices changed for improved consistency (CTS-97465)
Help now opens on correct page when opened from Tools or Statistics tabs of Main GUI (CTS-97622)
Scanning report title Russian localization error fixed (CTS-96573)
Browsing Protection:
Firefox Browsing Protection extension prevents several Google services (CTS-97532). Full fix, now also Google Calendar fully supported.
TP162:
New features
Browsing Protection:
Automatic closing of Banking Protection session on bank logout. This works so far only with a couple of banks (nordea.fi, op.fi, handelsbanken.fi). In order to improve the detection of Banking Session logout, we ask you to voluntarily submit the details from your own banks or favourite websites that trigger Banking Protection. You can submit these as “Bugs” in the beta portal, Subject “Banking Logout URL”. The details on the bug is simply the URL of the logout page.
Fixed issues
Browsing Protection:
Firefox Browsing Protection extension prevents several Google services (CTS-97532). Partial fix, all Google services work except Calendar (using calendar.google.com from new tab does already work).
Banking Protection toolbar/flyer not working with high resolution monitors, additional fixes (CTS-97303)
Missing rating icons with Yahoo Japan search results, now also with Firefox support (CTS-97521)
TP161:
Fixed issues
Common:
Installation dialog "Restart" button has incorrect style (CTS-97501)
Rare hang on upgrade (CTS-97485)
Rare protection failure after reboot (CTS-97433)
Russian translation issues in help (CTS-97304)
Browsing Protection:
Banking Protection toolbar/flyer rewrite to support high resolution monitors (CTS-97303)
Missing rating icons with Yahoo Japan search results. IE/Chrome only, Firefox fix coming in next TP. (CTS-97521)
Dropped features
Windows XP support has been removed. The product no longer installs or upgrades on Windows XP.
Installation and System Requirements
Before installing
It is strongly recommended to remove all other anti-virus products.
Operating systems supported
Windows 10*
Windows 8.1*
Windows 7, service pack 1.
Windows Vista, service pack 2.
*) Does not support ARM based tablets.
System requirements
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent (processor must support SSE2).
Memory: 1 GB or more.
Disk space: 1.2 GB of free space.
Internet connection is required in order to validate your subscription and receive updates.
Javascript must be enabled in the user's browser settings to enable active block pages.
Supported Browsers
Edge (Windows 10). Does not support extensions.
Internet Explorer 11 (Windows 8.1).
Internet Explorer 10 & 11 (Windows 7).
Internet Explorer 8 & 9 (Windows Vista).
Chrome, two latest major versions.
Firefox, two latest major versions.
Supported mail clients for e-mail scanning and spam filtering
The e-mail scanning and spam filtering work with installed e-mail clients (with unencrypted POP3), but not with web mail services.
Localization
Localizations are enabled for following 30 languages: English, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, French (Canadian), German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) and Simplified Chinese.
Known limitations
Common:
When some updates are installed, F-Secure program dialogs are closed automatically.
When certain updates are received and installed, it is possible that your open F-Secure program dialogs are closed automatically.
Product got stuck in the upgrading state (system restore problem).
Reverting to a Windows restore point which contains previous product version blocks upgrade until new product version is released.
Some packages show up as 'Not installed' in common settings downloads page before upgrade.
You may see some packages in 'Not installed' state in common settings downloads page before the upgrade. This happens when upgrade is waiting for remaining packages to be downloaded. All packages will change to installed state once the upgrade is completed and you have restarted the computer.
Upgrade will not start if there is not enough disk space.
If the upgrade process detects that there is not enough disk space for upgrading, no message is displayed to the user but it will retry later. Once user freed space on the hard disk, upgrade process will resume automatically at next check.
Incompatibility with Sophos Secure Web Gateway.
If you have Sophos Secure Web Gateway scanning network traffic, the product may not be able to download virus database updates. Exclude guts2.f-secure.com from scanning to fix the problem.
Antivirus:
DeepGuard may block some games or applications, or applications might be slowed down.
You can try enabling the 'Use the compatibility mode" from Antivirus > Settings > DeepGuard page and try to start the game or application again. If this does not help, disable also DeepGuard from On/Off -switch and try again. Even if these workarounds would help, please send us feedback through https://beta.f-secure.com/ .
Antivirus prevents web chat from working.
User might encounter that some sites might not show content correctly, for example chat sites. Workaround is to uncheck "Do not allow applications to download harmful files" from Firewall-page.
Incompatibility with nProtect GameGuard.
The nProtect GameGuard anti-cheating toolkit, used by a number of games, causes Antivirus malfunction as the protection processes get terminated. There is no workaround to this problem: to make protection work again, restart the computer after finishing playing the game.
Browsing Protection:
Web page can be distorted due to page elements’ URLs blocked or having an “unrated” category.
This can happen if web page elements (e.g. video, images, style sheet) is originate from another URL that is “unrated” or have a restricted category or address. You can allow the content by adding the address to the allowed list or reconfigure the category restriction.
The whole page is blocked if the page contained a blocked element.
When user manually refreshes a page with blocked elements, the whole page is being blocked instead. The first visit to the site is however unaffected.
Website will bypass block pages when "Security Cloud" is not available.
When "Security Cloud" is not available, user most probably able to visit any website regardless of the settings.
Banking session is not ended automatically.
This may cause problems if a user was doing a payment for online shopping and wanted to go back to shop web page. You should end Banking Protection session when you get a page redirecting you back to merchant web site. If you didn't end Banking Protection Session in time and got page load error, ending Banking Protection mode and refreshing web page should fix situation.
Banking protection is not triggered in Chrome Incognito mode and IE InPrivate mode.
Banking protection is not triggered when user visits banking sites via Google Chrome Incognito mode, or IE with InPrivate mode.
If bank web page uses unclassified domains to store information, the page is not loaded correctly while Banking Protection is active.
Turn off Banking Protection from Browsing Protection user interface and please send us feedback through https://beta.f-secure.com/ .
All banking sites are not yet classified as banks.
If you were expecting banking mode to turn on but it didn't, please send us feedback through https://beta.f-secure.com/ .
HTTPS Search engine rating icon does not show in Internet Explorer 7.
Internet Explorer 7 user that using HTTPS search engine (e.g. Google), will not see any rating icon.
Modern interface is still usable during the blocking mode.
Time Limit's Device block page is not displayed over Modern Interface on Windows 8.1 and above.
Manual browser restart is required if the browser is open during product upgrade.
User need to manually restart their browser if they had them open when the product is upgrading. Some feature might not work properly before it is restarted.
Extension status (in Browsing Protection GUI) update require closing the browser to reflect the change
This apply to Firefox and Chrome.
Internet Explorer browser extension compatibility with other extension.
Some feature might not work properly if user has other browser extension which is also intercepting web traffic (e.g. Adblock Plus, etc.)
Internet Explorer user are being prompted by the browser whether to have their intranet settings enabled.
Internet Explorer user with browser extension enabled which visited a blocked HTTPS url will be prompted whether to have their intranet settings enabled. The user are free to chose whether to have them enabled or not as it has no effect to Browsing Protection blocking feature.
Connection problems with proxy.
If Banking Protection session does not start and you are connecting to internet with a proxy, you should add proxy IP address to allowed websites list.
Safe Search:
You might see a prompt from Chrome saying: "Search by F-Secure" added.
After configured F-Secure Search, when launch Chrome for the first time, you might see a prompt from Chrome saying: "Search by F-Secure" added. User action is required to enable or remove the F-Secure Search extension. This is introduced by the new change in Chrome.
Internet Explorer setting 'Prevent programs from suggesting changes to my default search provider' enabled.
Safe Search search provider for IE cannot be set as default automatically if user has previously in IE settings selected option "Prevent programs from suggesting changes to my default search provider". That settings is found in Internet Explorer's "Manage add-ons" options, "Search Providers" page.
Firefox preferences locked.
Safe Search home page and search provider for Firefox cannot be set if user has locked preferences. The corresponding check box is grayed out if Safe Search cannot make the modifications.
Existing Safe Search home page is not automatically detected.
User already has set the Safe Search as home page. When configuring Safe Search the existing Safe Search home page is not automatically detected and another home page is added.
· Internet Explorer will complain about corruption after uninstall.
If user uninstalls Safe Search and search provider was configured to IE, IE will complain about corruption after uninstall. However, that does not cause any damage as IE recovers automatically after asking user to select default search provider.
Known issues
Installation:
Issues with removing conflicting software (sidegrade).
It is possible that some existing anti-virus products are not removed during installation. Please uninstall the software manually from Control Panel and submit a bug report through https://beta.f-secure.com/ .
Uninstall:
In case of uninstall issues please download and run F-Secure uninstall tool from: ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/support/t ... nstallationTool.exe .
User interface:
If user interface is scaled 200% or more, some dialog items may look incorrect.
Affected items: Check boxes, radio buttons and sort indicator.
Antivirus:
Restarting (or turning off) the computer during malware removal may cause the next computer startups to fail.
While Antivirus is removing malware, the user can continue using the computer, but the computer must not be restarted (or turned off) during malware removal. Doing so may put the system into a bad state and the computer may fail to start. It may require repairing the system by reverting to a saved restore point, or possibly reinstalling the OS.
Windows Firewall unselecting LAN setting doesn't alert on main user interface (LSC-85).
If user unselects current network connection from Windows Firewall settings on Windows Vista, F-Secure protection status is ok even when firewall is off.
Browsing Protection:
Edge triggers unintentional banking session more often (CTS-96658).
Edge does not have extension support. Without extension, banking protection can not differentiate between primary request and secondary. We will provide extension after Edge's extension support become available in the future.
Web site URL with non-ASCII character are not presented properly in the user interface (PBL-2478).
Non-ASCII character URL are not presented properly in the user interface (e.g. block pages, allowed and denied list).
· Notification or settings UI that is launched from Windows 8.1 Modern UI is not visible (PBL-2107).
Any Browsing Protection notification or settings UI will be shown at Windows 8.1 desktop mode even though it is launched from Windows 8.1 Modern UI browser.
Safe Search:
Upgrade shuts down browser without warning (PBL-2626)
User might observe browsers being shut down silently due to the F-Secure Search upgrade.
Contact Information and Feedback
We are looking forward to hearing comments and feedback on the product functionality, usability and performance.
Please report any technical issues through https://beta.f-secure.com/ .
If you are reporting a technical problem, please attach F-Secure system summary report to the feedback. To collect the system summary report, you need to have administrator rights.
In Windows 10, select Start | All Apps | F-Secure, and run F-Secure support tool.
In Windows 8.1, select Start | Down arrow, and run F-Secure support tool.
In Windows Vista and 7, select Start | All Programs | F-Secure, and run F-Secure support tool. |
发表于 2016-5-3 06:09:30
