Overview

This article introduces you to the release of GFI LanGuard 9 Service Release 1 (Build 20090313).

Information

Product and Date Release:

GFI LanGuard 9 / 2009

Improvements: 

• Guide users to configure their antivirus solutions for best LanGuard functionality and performance.
• Improved proxy support - a dialog is now available for manual proxy configuration.
• Licensing - Freeware mode with a limit maximum of 5 scanned computers.
• Security scanner:
  • Warning displayed when the LNSS_MONITOR_USR account does not have sufficient privileges.
  • New scan target type supported: scan computers in the text file.
  • Scan Summary reports user-interrupted scans accordingly.
  • Start page now has improved support for starting quick scans.
  • Performance improvements.
• Scanning Profiles > Patches: Support for configuring patches for all supported languages.
• Warning displayed when the GFI LanGuard computer has no internet access.
• Automatic remediation - Improved timeout handling for auto-uninstall validation.
• Database Maintenance Options - Displays information about license limitations.
• Dashboard > Scheduled Security Scans: Displays a proper state when waiting for offline computers.
• Improved application start-up speed.
• Improved context help.
• Other cosmetic and ease-of-use improvements.
• Patch deployment - Computers where deployment fails are highlighted in the deployment status window.
• Program Updates - Scheduled updates that fail because files that are in use are postponed.
• Scan Results - Virtual machines are highlighted in the Scan Results tree.
• Vulnerability assessment - Improved support for Python scripting.
  
  

Resolves:

• Automatic remediation - Redundant email notifications were being sent when new patches became available.
• Enumerate users/enumerate computers - Application crash when using Active Directory on Windows Server 2008.
• Microsoft updates deployment - Command line switches were not set correctly for a category of patches in Uninstall Microsoft Patches.
• Patch auto-download - Access Violation errors causing GFI LanGuard 9 Attendant service to crash.
• Results filtering - Virtual Machines report was not working.
• Security scanner:
  • Occasional application crash while performing large scans.
  • Occasional failures when performing reverse DNS lookup operations while scanning.
• Security Scanner/Enumerate Computers - 0 computers detected in workgroups with Windows Server 2008.
• Scheduled scans - Wait for offline computers was not working correctly when the target was specified by hostname.
  
  

Download Location:

GFI Software Downloads