6500 Anti-Malware Scan Engine (Current)
The 6500 Scan Engine includes the following improvements:

• Support for APK file type
• Hit-type support for ARM platform
• Expanding the exhausted hit-type limits of Extra DAT(ED)
• Negative driver support on ED
• Multiple bug fixes and minor feature enhancement
• Performance improvement

New supported platforms:

• Support for Windows on ARM
• FreeBSD 12.x and 13.x (64-bit only)

End of Life (EOL) platforms:

• None

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 6500 Scan Engine

6500 Scan Engine Beta	Starting May 27, 2022
6500 Scan Engine (Elective Download) General Availability (GA) for corporate products, except Endpoint Security for Mac	June 14, 2022
6500 Scan Engine (Auto-Update) GA for corporate products (except Endpoint Security (ENS))	July 12, 2022
6500 Scan Engine (Throttled Auto-Update) GA for ENS	Starting July 4, 2022 until July 12, 2022

NOTE: Scan Engine 6500 for Endpoint Security for Mac isn't yet released.

IMPORTANT: These timelines are estimates and are subject to change.

6500 Scan Engine download for VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) and other products that consume V2 or MED DAT virus definition updates:
You can download the 6500 Scan Engine (starting June 14, 2022) from the DAT downloads 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

6500 Scan Engine download for ENS products that consume V3 virus definition updates:
For important information about the 6500 Anti-Malware Scan Engine update for ENS, see KB92669 - About the 6500 Anti-Malware Scan Engine update for Endpoint Security.
The following products use V3 DATs:

• ENS
• Endpoint Security Storage Protection

6400 Anti-Malware Scan Engine (Previous, to be EOL soon)
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
• Expanding the exhausted hit-type limits to target more malware families
• Supplement 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.