Please be advised we will be pushing an update to activated N-central servers (N-central 2023.5+) as of Tuesday November 28^th for AV Defender (7.9.7.336) This will be available for updates at this time. Release Notes will be available on the new N-able Me following publication.

We would also like to advise you that Tuesday December 5^th AV Defender 7.9.7.336 will be available for Fresh Installs and Upgrades.

AV Defender Version 7.9.7.336

The following improvements have been added:

• Support for Windows 11 23H2
• Ability to certificate hash exclusions for PowerShell scripts.
• The Antimalware module can now monitor files that use the .log and .gif extensions.
• Added support for removing the following security products:
  • CrystalIDEA Uninstall Tool 3.x
  • Sophos Endpoint Agent, version 2022.4.x
• Added support for removing the following incompatible security product:
  • Webroot SecureAnywhere 9.x
  • Coro Cybersecurity
  • Cylance PROTECT, version 3.x
  • Trellix Agent
  • Trellix Endpoint Security Platform
  • Trellix Endpoint Security Adaptive Threat Protection
  • Trellix Endpoint Security Threat Prevention
  • Trellix Endpoint Security Web Control
• Enhanced support for removing the following incompatible security product:
  • Trend Micro Apex One Security Agent 14.x
• The Content Control module now blocks SSL connections, from non-browser processes to malicious domains. This improvement is going to be gradually enabled on all endpoints.

The following issues have been resolved:

• The security agent installation crashed on Windows Server 2016 endpoints with a very large number of certificates.
• Addressed a specific scenario where the product caused critical errors (BSOD). The issue is now fixed.
• Antimalware: Custom scan displayed incorrect paths in the local scan log when multiple scan tasks occurred at the same time.
• Custom scan displayed incorrect paths in the local scan log when multiple scan tasks occurred at the same time.
• Antimalware: The module could not quarantine Java Archive files, even though the archives could be deleted.
• Antimalware: The module did not detect files transferred at the same time on a network share via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
• Antimalware: In specific cases, the security agent crashed when a new product version was available
• Antimalware: The security agent did not allow the safe removal of external storage devices when the Antimalware module was installed.
• In a particular case, the Content Control module prevented PDF files from being downloaded from a website. The website remained in a loading state and eventually displayed the page as inaccessible.
• Content Control: Events generated by the Data Protection rules displayed IPs instead of web addresses when keyword filters were added for web traffic.
• Firewall:  some cases, the Firewall module blocked applications already excluded in the policy.
• The Firewall module caused endpoints to temporarily lose network connectivity when starting services or when changing policies. This issue occurred on Windows 10 and 11 systems.
• The module blocked a particular web address, which had been excluded in the policy, while the Web Proxy category was configured for blocking.
• In some cases, the Firewall module crashed after changing the Network Adapter settings.
• Firewall: In some cases, rules configured in the policy were no longer applied after a period of time, resulting in blocked applications.
• Firewall: In some cases, the Firewall module crashed after changing the Network Adapter settings.

Updating to this Release
The AV Defender update can be scheduled at an appropriate time by adding a maintenance window to your devices. Updating involves an incremental update of components or modules without the need to remove protection. The device will be rebooted after the update if the maintenance window allows AV Defender Reboots. A reboot may be required based on Installation Status. If you do not want updates or reboots to proceed automatically, you can disable them by removing the appropriate maintenance windows from the device or rule.

For all Supported Operating systems please see N-able Me System requirements (n-able.com)