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Anti-Malware Engine 6700 Beta Program

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Trellix Anti-Malware Engine 6700 BETA

Trellix is pleased to announce the BETA for the Anti-Malware Engine 6700. This will be a new maintenance update to the current Engine 6600. The Trellix Anti-Malware Engine is the core component at the heart of the award-winning Trellix 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 Beta program and provide us your valuable feedback.

New Features

  • Normalization support for PowerShell scripts.
  • Increased coverage of MIME samples.
  • Performance improvement of internal API and the vulnerability fixes.
  • Multiple bug fixes and minor feature enhancements.

Release availability

The Engine 6700 will be delivered through a throttled update approach expected during the first half of Feb2024 for all Enterprise ENS installations that received update via V3 daily DAT updates, with no further action required.

For non-Windows platforms(Linux and Mac) and OEM customers, the new Engine will be available from the Security Updates page and SDK as an Elective update during the second week of Jan 2024.

Engine for all other non-Windows platforms will be made available in the second half of March 2024.

The auto-update push to products consuming V2 DATs is expected during middle of Feb 2024.

The existing Engine 6600 will be EOL soon and hence the use of this new release is recommended.

Command Line Scanner 7.0.4 Beta

Trellix Command Line Scanner BETA version 7.0.4 is now available for evaluation. This release of Command Line Scanner includes several bug fixes as well as the new Engine 6700 BETA. We encourage you to participate in this BETA program and provide us your valuable feedback.

Instructions for ENS customers to evaluate the 6700 Engine BETA

  1. In the ePO console, select Menu | Configuration | Server Settings.
  2. Select Source Sites, then click Edit | Add Source Site.
    1. Enter “AMCore Beta Content” as the Repository Name, then type HTTP, and click Next.
    2. In the Server name (URL) field, ensure that DNS Name is selected as the default and enter “betaupdate.mcafee.com”, with default port 80, and click Next.
    3. Continue clicking Next until the last screen, then click Save.
    4. Click Enable Fallback, then click Save.
  3. Select Menu | Automation | Server Tasks.
    1. Select Update Master Repository task and click Edit.
    2. Click Next to navigate to the Action tab, then click +.
    3. In the New Action section, select Repository Pull.
    4. Select the AMCore Beta Content as the Source site, Evaluation for Branch (if the current production AMCore content is being pulled into the current branch) and click Save.
  4. Select the Update Master Repository task and click Run.

To change the Agent policy to pull from the Evaluation branch:

  1. In the ePO console, edit the Agent’s General policy assigned to the endpoints you are using for beta testing.
  2. Click the Updates tab.
  3. Select Evaluation from the AMCore Content Package drop-down list, then save the policy.

Platform Enhancements

  • Windows 11 23H2
  • macOS 14.0 Sonoma (x86-64 and ARM64)

System Requirements

  • At least 512 MB of free hard disk space
  • At least an additional 512 MB of free hard disk space reserved for temporary files
  • At least 512 MB of RAM for scanning operations (1024 MB recommended minimum)
  • At least 1024 MB of RAM for updating operations

Installation Requirements

Microsoft operating systems:

  • Windows 7, Windows 8.x, Windows 10 (all 32-bit and x64 Editions), Windows 11 (both Intel x86_64 and ARM)
  • Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022 (all 32-bit and x64 Editions)

UNIX operating systems:

  • IBM AIX 6.1 , 7.1 or 7.2 for RS6000 with the latest maintenance packages installed
  • FreeBSD 9.x, 10.x, 11.x, 12.x and 13.x for Intel with legacy compatibility library libc.so.3 installed
  • Hewlett-Packard HP-UX 11iv3 for PA-RISC with the latest Standard HP-UX patch bundles installed
  • Linux for Intel 32-bit distributions shipping with version 2.6, 3.x, 4.x or 5.x production kernels with libstdc++.so.5.0.5 installed
  • Linux for Intel 64-bit distributions shipping with version 2.6 , 3.x, 4.x or 5.x production kernels, with libstdc++.so.6 installed
  • Oracle Solaris for SPARC version 9, 10 and 11 with the latest Solaris OS recommended cluster installed
  • Oracle Solaris for X86 versions version 10 and 11 with the latest Solaris OS recommended cluster installed
  • Apple MacOS 10.13, 10.14, MacOS 11 BigSur, MacOS 12 Monterey (both Intel x86_64 and ARM), MacOS 13 Ventura (both Intel x86_64 and ARM), MacOS 14 Sonoma (both Intel x86_64 and ARM)

Engine Downloads

Package Platform
Windows ePO package Windows 32-bit and 64-bit
MacOS ePO package
This is for Testing
Test
MacOS ePO package MacOS Intel 64-bit and ARM 64-bit
Linux ePO package Linux 32-bit and 64-bit
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