FS Protection for Mac 19.4 releases

ArthurVal

FS Protection for Mac 19.4 releases will be posted under this thread.

ArthurVal

Release 19.4 beta 1 (build 60628)

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new release of FS Protection for Mac. This update is available for download from My FS Protection and delivery to existing installations will be started later.

Highlights of this release:

• New completely refactored Anti-Virus component stack. Rewritten from scratch to optimise for modern macOS versions, improve performance and enrich the feature stack
• Trusted Shopping feature. Get notifications about trustworthiness score from extensions in the supported browsers whenever visiting a shopping website. The feature can be configured in product settings.
• Updates tab. Product settings UI has a new section which shows the state of product updates including the timeline of last received updates and statistics on when the last update check attempt took place

Known issues:

• New Anti-Virus component might report an already trashed infection repeatedly
• Missing localisations

These issues will be fixed in an upcoming beta release.

If you experience any issues, please report them in this forum. Please run "Support Tool" when the issue happens and be prepared to provide the resulting file if we requested. For issues related to Browsing protection and Parental control, remember to include any URLs that reproduce the problem in your bug report. You may also submit false positives and uncategorized web pages directly to F-Secure Labs using https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/submit-a-sample#sample-url

As always, we welcome any feedback via the community pages!

eleet

Can't see the link

bobbyw

I'm running 19.4 60628 on a Mac Pro (Intel), with Sonoma 14.1.

Since the update to 19.4, I've been getting frequent lag waiting for response when opening windows, browsing the web, etc. These periods of lag correspond with high CPU usage on the process wscscannermanagerd. This lag was not present on the prior version of F-secure.

If I disable scanning using the F-Secure settings, then normal functionality returns.

I'm not able to use my computer normally unless I disable F-Secure 19.4

bobbyw

Just wanted to add, the lag/beachballing I'm getting with 19.4 60628 on my Intel Mac Pro is NOT occuring on my M1 Macbook Pro. So this may be an issue only with Intel macs.

ArthurVal

Release 19.4 beta 2 (build 60787)

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new release of FS Protection for Mac. This update is available for download from My FS Protection and delivery to existing installations will be started later today.

Highlights of this release:

• Improved performance of the new Anti-Virus component
• Improved resilience to unstable network conditions of the new Anti-Virus component
• Improved handling of database engine updates in cases when the new Anti-Virus component is unconfigured
• Added an option to product settings to configure visibility of browser extension popups about visiting safe/suspicious shopping websites

Known issues:

• Fixed: New Anti-Virus component might report an already trashed infection repeatedly
• Fixed: Missing localisations

If you experience any issues, please report them in this forum. Please run "Support Tool" when the issue happens and be prepared to provide the resulting file if we requested. For issues related to Browsing protection and Parental control, remember to include any URLs that reproduce the problem in your bug report. You may also submit false positives and uncategorized web pages directly to F-Secure Labs using https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/submit-a-sample#sample-url

As always, we welcome any feedback via the community pages!

ArthurVal

https://community.f-secure.com/en/discussion/comment/135041#Comment_135041

Hi, @bobbyw!

Thanks for the report! We just made a new release available which targets performance and improved handling of unstable network conditions.

Could you please monitor if there any improvements on your Intel machine once FS Protection upgrades to build 60787? We would appreciate if you could share the output of Support Tool app (fsdiag archive with diagnostics) if you are still encountering issues after upgrading to the latest FS Protection beta version.

Thanks!

ArthurVal

https://community.f-secure.com/en/discussion/comment/135011#Comment_135011

Hi, @eleet!

Could you please share which link are you experiencing troubles with? Thanks.

ArthurVal

Release 19.4 beta 3 (build 60838)

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new release of FS Protection for Mac. This update is available for download from My FS Protection and delivery to existing installations also started.

Highlights of this release:

• macOS 11 (Big Sur) support dropped
• Added missing product telemetry for database engine updates
• Improved Safari extension detection state
• Implemented AV components status monitoring and issue remediation

If you experience any issues, please report them in this forum. Please run "Support Tool" when the issue happens and be prepared to provide the resulting file if we requested. For issues related to Browsing protection and Parental control, remember to include any URLs that reproduce the problem in your bug report. You may also submit false positives and uncategorized web pages directly to F-Secure Labs using https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/submit-a-sample#sample-url

As always, we welcome any feedback via the community pages!