Batch Antivirus v4.0.0

Batch Antivirus v4.0.0 Changelog

After two years of dedicated development, the latest major release of Batch Antivirus has arrived, bringing powerful new features and modules designed to significantly enhance system security and boost overall performance.

Here’s a quick look at the key improvements in v4.0.0:

• NEW MODULE: Launcher
  Added a launcher for Batch Antivirus to make Batch Antivirus usage easier
  It features a simple menu which allows the user to launch individual modules interactively.

• NEW MODULE: Website blocker
  Block custom websites and IPs while real-time protection web protection is active.

• NEW REAL-TIME MODULE: Process scanner
  Real-time protection now actively scans all the running processes for malware.

• UPDATED MALWARE DATABASE: VirusDataBaseIP.bav
  Thanks to an extensive malicious IP list from urlhaus-filter, more than 59k IPs have been added to the database.

• IMPROVED MODULE: Deep scanner
  Deep scanner now searches for 26 different patterns including anti-VM, password theft and attribute changes
  The detection has been fine-tuned to reduce false positives while detecting malware more accurately.

• IMPROVED MODULE: Real-time protection
  Strengthened kill protection with independent monitoring of the watchdog and primary process.

• IMPROVED MODULE: Scan interception
  Scan interception module has been merged into a single file and features the ability to completely revert the changes made by it
  Special thanks to @BatchDebug on GitHub for adding these functionalities to this module!

• IMPROVED MODULE: Threat detail
  The threat detail module has been expanded to display more accurate description of the detected malware present inside the database
  Furthermore, the module can also give detailed information of the possible threats inside a file by passing its path.

• IMPROVED MODULE: Disk scanner
  It now base64-encodes quarantined files for more safety and numerous bug fixes and improvements have been done.

• REWORKED MODULES: Merged 'USBScan.bat' and 'USBCleaner.bat' into a single, improved utility
  They now scan every single drive and the autorun.inf malware detection has been improved.

Technical changes:

• Batch Antivirus now features an organized and optimized file structure
• Batch Antivirus is more configurable thanks to an improved settings system
• Real-time protection and disk scanner logs have been improved
• Improved fork bomb detection by minimizing false positives while enhancing accuracy in identifying genuine threats
• Repeated entries in the database have been deleted
• Standarization of malware detection nomenclature
• Lots of minor bug fixes
• Grammar improvements
• Performance enhancements in deep scanner module

Batch Antivirus v3.0.0

Biggest Batch Antivirus update.

A lot of changes have been made to improve the protection.

Batch Antivirus v3.0.0 includes:

• Drive scanner
• Auto-updater (both antivirus and databases)
• Deep Scanning (for batch files)
• 190k SHA256 hash database
• 313k IP database
• USB Scanner for malware
• USB shortcut malware remover
• Autorun configuration of the antivirus
• Real-time file protection
• Real-time web protection
• PC Monitor, which checks for disk space & CPU temperature
• Kill protection for real-time protection
• Background real-time, starting before any other startup program (even explorer)
• Quarantine (files are encoded in base64 and locked)
• Quarantine viewer
• File opening interception
• VirusTotal analysis (On DeepScan)

This update makes Batch Antivirus a more reliable antivirus to use, and it's the safest version ever.
All the modules and programs have been recoded to improve performance and reduce resource usage, thus making Batch Antivirus safer and faster.

DeepScan includes the VirusTotal results to see the detections with over 70 antivirus solutions to know if a file is malicious.

Batch AntiVirus beta 0.1.0

This is the first release of Batch AntiVirus.
It is currently in Beta version.