6600 Anti-Malware Scan Engine (Current)
The 6600 Scan Engine includes the following improvements:
- New Musarubra platform certificates
- Scanning capability for the DEX file-type
- New PDF 256-bit AES and RC4 40-bit Encryption support
- Enhancements on the supported APK extensions file
- Extended AutoIT 2.x support
- Handling of manipulated MIME headers
- Multiple bug fixes and minor feature enhancements
New supported platforms:
- Windows 10 22H2
- Windows 11 22H2
- macOS 13.0 Ventura (x86-64 and ARM64)
End of Life (EOL) platforms:
System requirements – disk space and memory:
- At least 512 MB of free hard disk space
- At least another 512 MB of free hard disk space reserved for temporary files
- At least 512 MB of RAM for scanning operations – 1024 MB recommended
- At least 1024 MB of RAM for updating operations
Release schedule for the 6600 Scan Engine
| 6600 Scan Engine Beta |
Starting November 24, 2022 |
| 6600 Scan Engine (Elective Download) General Availability (GA) for corporate products, except Endpoint Security for Mac |
December 13, 2022 |
| 6600 Scan Engine (Throttled Auto-Update) GA for ENS |
Starting January 17, 2023 |
| 6600 Scan Engine (Auto-Update) GA for corporate products (except Endpoint Security (ENS)) |
January 25, 2023 |
NOTE: Scan Engine 6600 for Endpoint Security for Mac isn't yet released.
IMPORTANT: These timelines are estimates and are subject to change.
6600 Scan Engine download for products that consume V2 or MED DAT virus definition updates:
You can download the 6600 Scan Engine (starting December 13, 2022) from the
Security Updates page.
The following products use MED DATs:
- Endpoint Security for Linux (ENSL) 10.7.x
- Endpoint Security for Mac (ENSM) 10.7.x.
The following products use V2 DATs:
- Advanced Threat Defense
- ENSL before 10.7.0, ENSM before 10.7.0
- Management for Optimized Virtual Environments
- Security for Microsoft Exchange (SME)
- Security for SharePoint (PortalShield)
- SuperDAT Manager
- VirusScan Command Line Scanner
- VSE
- VirusScan Enterprise for Linux (VSEL)
- VirusScan Enterprise for Storage
- VirusScan for Mac
- Web Gateway
6600 Scan Engine download for ENS products that consume V3 virus definition updates:
For important information about the 6600
Anti-Malware Scan Engine update for ENS, see
KB92669 - About the 6600 Anti-Malware Scan Engine update for Endpoint Security.
The following products use V3 DATs:
- ENS
- Endpoint Security Storage Protection
6500 Anti-Malware Scan Engine (Previous, to be EOL soon)
The 6500 Scan Engine includes the following improvements:
- Support for APK file-type
- Hit-type support for ARM platform
- Expansion of the exhausted hit-type limits of Extra DAT(ED)
- Negative driver support on ED
- Multiple bug fixes and minor feature enhancement
- Performance improvement
6400 Anti-Malware Scan Engine (EOL on December 14, 2022)
The 6400 Scan Engine includes the following improvements:
- Improved DMG extraction support to include the APFS file system and UDRW format
- Security enhancements by moving away from the vulnerable OpenSSL libraries
- Provision for decoding the b64decode from the buffer
- Augmented driver-limits to enable authoring bigger and complex detection codes
- Ability to use Regular Expressions in drivers to supplement pattern-matching algorithms
- Expansion of the exhausted hit-type limits to target more malware families
- Supplementing of the contemporary XL4 code to add support for RC4 CryptoAPI decryption
- Code optimization and minor bug fixes
6300 Anti-Malware Scan Engine (EOL on June 15, 2022)
The 6300 Scan Engine includes the following improvements:
- Enhanced threat landscape with added support for MPress (LZMAT) and DMG file-type support
- Improved coverage on OLE and Excel file-types
- Better handling of VBA and Jar files and wider coverage for UPX packed files
- Catered multiple research requirements to improve the detection effectiveness with better handling in content
- Several bug fixes, and performance and security improvements
6200 Anti-Malware Scan Engine (EOL on December 31, 2021)
The 6200 Scan Engine includes the following improvements:
- Enhanced threat landscape with added support for MSIL and AutoIT-based malware
- Extended coverage for PDF and ISO file types
- Added provision to author better content with decoding support for ADC and LZFSE
- Better handling capability for Linux and macOS threats
- Multiple features for better driver handling, which improves detection effectiveness
- Several bug fixes and performance improvements
6100 Anti-Malware Scan Engine (EOL on June 10, 2021)
The 6100 Scan Engine includes the following improvements:
- Enhanced threat landscape coverage with added support for 7Z, RAR5, and ISO archive file-types
- Improved detection with added support for WinACE2, BZIP2, LZMA2, BCJ, and PPMD Codecs
- Better handling capability for non-PE-based malware with added Driver Ordering support
- Improved precision in detection with added floating-point support
- Several bug fixes, security fixes, and performance improvements
6010 Anti-Malware Scan Engine (EOL on November 28, 2020)
The 6010 Scan Engine includes the following improvements:
- Future platform support, including case-sensitivity support for the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (version 1903)
- File scanning performance improvements for Windows
- Sustaining fixes for all platforms
6000 Scan Engine (EOL on November 28, 2020)
The 6000 Scan Engine includes the following improvements:
- Enhanced JavaScript engine, stabilization, and performance improvements. JavaScript processing capability was added in the 5900 Scan Engine
- Augmented VBA Macro file handling to improve detection capabilities on malware hidden in VBA Macros
- Added internal APIs for file, directory, process, and registry handling to enable safer DAT content authoring
- Added support for 64-bit binary disassembly
- Enhanced ELF Handler to improve detection capabilities on 64-bit ELF binaries
- Improved DAT initialization performance to tackle increasing DAT content
- Miscellaneous fixes of defects and customer escalations
