TrendMicro has released an updated version of the PC-cillin virus scanengine. This update is NOT available through the programs auto-update feature. This release includes several enhancements and features, which are discussed below in further detail. The update applies to version 6.0 & above (U.S. Retail versions only). Update: Guide added to update english OEM versions! What's New in version 6.50: Protection against Microsoft .NET viruses. (.Net Ready Engine) Revolutionalized SoftMice-III Engine New WinTrap Engine that implements Heuristic Rules for better protection and immediate detection of Windows-based viruses Support for Alternate Data Stream (ADS) scanning and repair Protection against the Long Folder Path (LFP) vulnerability, which can be exploited by the malware to avoid detection during a system scan by using deeply-nested subdirectories Support for highly popular BZIP and BZIP2 file compression algorithms Support for Compression Format such as ASPACK and UPX Enhanced Mime/Email format Detection and Decoding Virus Protection for Ichitaro Justsystem files Provision for New VBA Macro Virus Protection for Corel applications Protection against VBA macro viruses for AutoCad 2002 applications Supports Microsoft Access 2000/XP VBA macro scanning Enhanced Cleaning capability for password-protected Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP documents Support Exact FileName match for the Deny Write feature on Server Protect Enhance OLE file Structure for faster performance on scanning Powerpoint, Excel, and Word files Note: Apparently it is possible to manually update also OEM versions, e.g. versions that shipped with Asus motherboards. For PC-cillin 2002 the procedure is as follows: 1.) Go to install directory of PC-cillin
2.) Create folder named 'Source'
3.) Download scan engine file according to your OS
4.) Extract files to 'Source' folder 5.) Close PC-cillin 6.) Go to install directory of PC-cillin and double-click 'tmupdito.exe' - then wait a moment
7.) Also copy the extracted files to 'Windows - System32 - drivers' overwriting existing files to update version information within PC-cillin
7.) Restart PC Download PC-cillin Scanengine 6.510