Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 leverages our award-winning Insight technology to give our customers -from small businesses to large enterprises-the strongest protection and fastest performance available," said Ajay Goel, Managing Director, India and SAARC, Symantec. "Cyber attacks are increasing in size, scope and sophistication and companies of all sizes are at risk. The Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition offers enterprise-class threat detection technologies and performance improvements with simple to use features such as an installation wizard, pre-configured policy settings and automated notifications and reports for small business customers. Symantec is also working closely with VMware to take advantage of virtualisation awareness and introspection capabilities based on VMware vShield technology. It offers comprehensive defence against all types of attacks and is optimised for performance on virtual systems. The new, Insight-driven compatible scan engine is also designed to do most of its work while computers are idle. Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 leverages cloud-based community intelligence to reduce the overhead of virus scanning by using Symantec Insight to automatically identify and whitelist trusted high-reputation files. In addition, SONAR 3, the hybrid behavioural-reputation engine, blocks zero-day and highly targeted threats based on their joint behaviour-reputation profile. All of the product’s security engines are now reputation-enabled, leveraging Insight’s online reputation database to identify and block malware attacks. Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 blocks new and unknown threats missed by traditional signature, heuristic, behavioural and HIPS-based security solutions. Powered by Insight, Symantec’s cloud-based reputation technology, Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 is designed to detect and block sophisticated new threats. has announced new versions of Symantec Endpoint Protection and Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition (currently in beta).
But I expect Symantec/Norton users will receive the fix later today and Microsoft to release the August 2019 security updates for affected Windows systems.Symantec Corp. The Support article about Symantec Endpoint Protection hasn't been udated yet. Localized language versions will be available on the 21st. MS has not updated KB4512506 or KB4512486 to reflect this:įor Symantec Endpoint Protection users, the English 14.2 version hasīeen updated. A reboot may be required for this to happen.
Once the patched version is applied (v22.18.0.222), security roll-upsįor August (Group A – Aug 13 KB4512506) will appear in Windows Update The new version will show up through Live Update (140+ mb).
Symantec released an updated version of Norton Internet Security thatįixes the SHA-2 patch problem for Windows 7 this morning (Tues). Leonhard received a notification from CA, which indicates the release of the patch:
(MS's KB articles haven't been updated.)
Remember that block on Win7 patches this month, on systems with Symantec or Norton antivirus? Looks like Symantec has released a fix and you can now install this month's patches. Through the following tweet by Woody Leonhard I became aware that Symantec has now released an update to solve this problem. I reported in the blog post Symantec/Norton blocks Windows Updates (SHA-2). The required August 2019 security updates were not offered. Microsoft has therefore blocked the deployment of the August 2019 updates for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Symantec has published the KB article Windows 7/Windows 2008 R2 updates that are only SHA-2 signed are not available with Symantec Endpoint Protection installed. The antivirus solutions only detected updates signed with SHA2 (because of the missing SHA-1 signature) as malware and blocked these packages. However, users of Windows systems that have Symantec Antivirus or Norton Antivirus installed have a problem since the August 2019 patchday. These can only be installed if Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 and WSUS have been upgraded accordingly (see also WSUS: Endpoint decommissioned SHA2 update required). So far, Microsoft has also provided dual-signed update packages signed with SHA-1 as well as SHA-2.Īs of August 2019, however, the SHA-1 signature in the Windows 7 updates has been completely removed.
This is not a problem, because Microsoft has provided the relevant updates to SHA-2 support since months. I've addressed this, among other things, in the blog post Windows 7: From April 2019 'SHA-2-Support' is required. Microsoft has changed the signing of Update for Windows 7 in August 2019 exclusively to SHA-2.