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hope to see a new default or recommended setting which includes at least a medium heuristic scanning mode
not really needed, web av and mail av scan on arival and the HIPS module scans with a very deep mode on execution, malware is not a threat until executed.
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major improvements on the antispam software integration within outlook express for older computers without windows vista
and what major improvements are you expecting? it already has a spam/not spam toolbar and ways to automatically move spam to a folder, delete it, mark it as read etc.
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including intrusion blocking
it has instrusion detection in online security, kis has ids until version 6.