MCShield ::Anti-Malware Tool::

What do you get with MCShield?

What do you get when you combine unrivaled drive recognition stability and speed of USBNoRisk, state of the art heuristic engine of MCShield 1, a lot of ideas, great user feedback, several years of experience and a year of programming and testing?

MCShield is an antimalware program designed to prevent infections transmitted via removable drives. Lighter, smarter and faster than ever!

Changelog

Changelog: v 2.6.3.21: 12th April 2013. - updated all components to work with our new domain (www.mcshield.net); - added detection for another variant of replicating worms; - updated/improved detection/remediation of Win32.Gamarue; - added Russian language (thanks to translator Covaliov Andrei Genadie). v 2.5.4.20: 10th February 2013. - fixed a bug related to autoupdate (if database notifications are off, the new setup would not be started after download). v 2.5.3.19: 10th February 2013. - added new option in Control Center (on Scanner tab: Interactive mode); - implemented interactive removal mode (for most actions: the user is asked about actions being taken); - implemented verification of digital signatures (and whitelisting via list of trusted publishers); - changed automatic program update (beginning from the next update, the program will download and run the installation); - initial "no updates available" notification can now be disabled via "Don't show initial notifications" option; - improved self-integrity checks (if program components are missing/damaged, a repair installation will be run); - added a new program component (MCDialogs.dll; used by the scanner in the interactive mode); - added French language (thanks to translator Christian LEFEVRE); - added German language (thanks to translator Jig Saw, Trojaner-Board.de); - added Dutch language (thanks to translator Piet Bruinsma) - updated all translations to support localization of the new features; - tweaked several detection routines; - added Windows version to the header of the log files; - fixed a scanner crash in case of damaged/missing database; - fixed a number of stability related bugs (rare crashes due to interference by some antiviruses); - many additional code improvements... v 2.4.3.18: 16th December 2012. - implemented a new generic detection routine (for more precise detection/remediation of Trojan:VBS/Autorun.B (MS)); - added Persian language (thanks to translator Seyed Ehsan Hadi). v 2.3.3.17: 29th November 2012. - fixed an issue that caused some quarantined items not to be shown on the Quarantine tab inside the Control Center; - added Hungarian language (thanks to translator lostprophet). v 2.2.4.16: 25th October 2012. - fixed an issue regarding encryption of certain quarantined files; - fixed an issue that caused longer scan and wrong tray notification when the program was fixing a false positive. v 2.2.3.15: 13th October 2012. - fixed a scanner issue that could cause long scan times in case of very large exe files; - fixed an installer issue that caused the autoupdate interval to be set to 2 even if program was previously installed; - implemented quarantine encryption; - implemented direct autorun.inf whitelisting (previously: only indirect whitelisting was possible); - implemented a new generic detection routine (to better cover the "blended behaviour" worm that's currently in the wild); - added Slovenian language (thanks to translator Darth.Mikey); - added Norwegian language (thanks to translator Pondus); - added Spanish language (thanks to translator iroc9555); - added Spanish help file (available on the website, translated by iroc9555); - improved autoupdate (previously: checked new program version only after RTM starts; now: checks every time RTM does an update); - modified (additional fine tuning) detection routines for malware related folders (those that use same names as legit folders). v 2.1.4.13: 1th July 2012. - fixed an issue that caused a scanner crash when an orphan autorun file gets detected. v 2.1.3.12: 23rd June 2012. - fixed an issue regarding the deletion of all quarantined items; - fixed an issue causing the items in the users white list to be ignored from whitelisting; - fixed several installation issues (deletion of old Run items etc.); - fixed an issued that caused the autoupdate routine to update only the database (now: autoupdate shall update the both the DB and the program every time RTM is started); - removed multilanguage support from the installer (setup is now in english only to ease the localisation process); - removed MCUpdater.dll from the installation (it's functionality has been implemented in RTM and CC); - added support for proxy servers; - added "Game Mode" (which prevents all notifications from appearing); - added new option in Control Center ("Don't prompt to show logs" which controls the prompt that appears after malware removal); - added new tray notifications that appear after the scan and give basic information about actions that have been preformed; - added database version to the scan logs; - added scanning of previously renamed (suspicious) files for legitimacy and their restoration in case they are determined to be legitimate; - added polish language (thanks to translator: marsellus); - changed a large amount of program code to gain more stability and error control; - several other code tweaks. v 2.0.3.11 v2 final: 17th March 2012. - fixed an issue with loading of default settings when program runs for the first time on accounts that where not used for installation; - improved autorun blocking (added an early, third level blocking); - added Credits button on About tab in Control Center; - added help files (available online); - various other code improvements in several components; - updated language files. v 2.0.1.10 public beta 2: 25th February 2012. - fixed an issue that resulted in failed whitelisting of certain files; - fixed an issue regarding improper processing of unicode autorun files; - fixed an issue related to update procedures which caused the updater to fail to report a new program version (because of this bug, beta1 (2.0.1.9) will not report the availability of beta2); - tray notifications have been set "on top" so they don't get covered by other windows; - tray notifications duration is now 3, 4 or 5 seconds (more text / higher importance = longer duration); - prepared all components for a (soon to come) change in database format - new database is not compatible with beta1 (beta1 users are advised to update to beta2 as soon as possible); - added croatian language - thanks to the translator dobrota; - updated all language files; -fixed an issue that prevented the program from running on 64bit Windows XP; - multiple other code tweaks and improvements in all components. v 2.0.1.9; v2 public beta 1: 12th February, 2012. - entire program rewritten from scratch; - additional heuristics for improved detection; - v2 uses only one resident application (previously: two; which means that it uses even less system resources than it used to); - redesigned user interface; - progress bar replaced with tray icon animation; - window notifications replaced with tray notifications; - CPanel, QManager and White list tool replaced with Control Center; - improved update routines; - improved installation routines; - new features and improvements of the old ones; - improved support for multiuser environments; - all known v1.x issues have been fixed. v 1.4.3: 27th March, 2011. - fix: auto-update settings not properly applied; - fix: the scanner freezes in rare occasions; - fix: CPanel, QManager and WLT not properly resized after update to IE9. v 1.4.2: 28th December, 2010. - new: CPanel window layout gets adjusted to the screen resolution for ease of use on low resolution screens; - change: setup routine tweaked for increased stability; - fix: first scanner run on certain user accounts gives an error (fixed). v 1.4.1: 5th November, 2010. - fix: the About window not showing program version properly (fixed); - fix: new drives not scanned on certain user accounts (fixed); - fix: occasional "No disk in drive..." messages when ejecting drives (fixed). v 1.4: 26th October, 2010. - new: drive (dis)connection, scan summary and installation log file (MCShield\Logs\Summary); - new: drive monitoring routines rewritten from the scratch (to regain desired speed and improve stability); - new: additional detection routines for improved cleanup of new variants of Win32.Rimecud and similarly behaving malware; - change: multiple code tweaks; - change: improved setup routines; - change: start menu items moved to all users start menu; - fix: QManager not showing quarantined files properly; - fix: occasional erraneous positioning of CPanel/QManager/White List Tool window. v 1.3.2 : 18th September, 2010. - new: the About window shows additional version and database information; - fix: MultiTool run time errors (now: fixed, should be fully stable). v 1.3.1 : 12th September, 2010. - change: small modifications of several components. v 1.3 : 11th September, 2010. - new: added additional file types for scanning; - new: additional extended heuristics routines; - new: heuristics based detection of malware using "LNK exploit"; - new: update routines transferred to new tool - MCShieldUPD; - change: optimized scanning of drives that have large number of files in root folder; - change: log file format slightly changed; - change: handling of autorun.inf that points to malware (now: gets deleted); - change: extended heuristics are now more aggressive; - change: multiple GUI tweaks; - change: optimized MultiTool component; - change: changed/optimized database format, loading and handling. v 1.2.2 : 10th August, 2010. - new: added additional file types for scanning; - change: "Drive X: seems clean" notification set to stay on top of other Windows; - fix: scan doesn't continue after elevation (now: fixed). v 1.2.1 : 4th August, 2010. - fix: automatic update issues (now: fully functional; Tray Controller takes care of auto. updates). v 1.2 : 6th July, 2010. - new: possibility to abort the currently running scan; - new: automatic update routines (new option in CPanel); - new: possibility to turn off notifications about starting / stopping the scanner (new option in CPanel); - new: added additional file types for scanning; - change: CPanel now requires elevation where applicable (due to new routines); - change: multiple code optimizations (stability and speed); - change: new appearance of GUI components; - fix: Cpanel's links always opening in IE (now: in the default browser). v 1.1 : 16th May, 2010. - new: implemented adaptive depth signature scanning (new option in CPanel); - new: possibility to skip initial scan (new option in CPanel); - new: implemented possibility to add files to programs whitelist (new app. White list tool); - new: additional whitelisting layer for improved safety (using both internal and user's white list); - change: redistributed internal functions (replaced MCShieldPB and the Updater with MCShieldMT); - change: high compatibility mode set as default (removed related option from CPanel); - change: drastically improved scan speed of large non infected drives (improved autorun.inf handling routines and implemented adaptive depth scanning); - change: multiple code optimizations (stability and speed); - change: new database format (program now includes external malware and legitimate file signatures); - change: improved update routines; - change: new appearance of program notifications. v 1.0.3 : 21th April, 2010. - change: formatting of window titles to show the program version; - fix: CPanel showing run items as checked when they aren't. v 1.0.2 : 20th April, 2010. - change: added ability to minimize the scan indicator; v 1.0.1 : 15th April, 2010. - fix: tray menu items not working if Tray Controller started with Windows; - change: new scan indicator. v 1.0 - first public release; 10th April, 2010.