Trend Micro, Inc.

November 2017

 

Trend Micro™ OfficeScan™ as a Service

Version XG Service Pack 1

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Contents

  1. About OfficeScan

  2. What's New

  3. Document Set
  4. System Requirements
  5. Installation
  6. Known Issues
  7. Contact Information
  8. About Trend Micro
  9. License Agreement

 

1. About OfficeScan

Trend Micro™ OfficeScan™ protects enterprise networks from malware, network viruses, web-based threats, spyware, and mixed threat attacks. An integrated solution, OfficeScan consists of an agent program that resides at the endpoint and a server program that manages all agents. The agent guards the endpoint and reports its security status to the server. The server, through the web-based management console, makes it easy to set coordinated security policies and deploy updates to every agent.

OfficeScan is powered by the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™, a next generation cloud-client infrastructure that delivers security that is smarter than conventional approaches. Unique in-the-cloud technology and a lighter-weight agent reduce reliance on conventional pattern downloads and eliminate the delays commonly associated with desktop updates. Businesses benefit from increased network bandwidth, reduced processing power, and associated cost savings. Users get immediate access to the latest protection wherever they connect—within the company network, from home, or on the go.

 

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2. What's New

OfficeScan includes the following new features and enhancements:

What's New in OfficeScan XG Service Pack 1

Update Agent Connections

You can configure OfficeScan agents to use HTTPS protocol when using an Update Agent as the update source.

Behavior Monitoring Exception List

Enhancements to the Exception List support the use of wildcard characters.

Predictive Machine Learning

Predictive Machine Learning has been enhanced to detect malicious script execution.

Cloud Synchronization Channel for Ransomware Detections

OfficeScan agents detect ransomware downloaded through supported cloud synchronization channels.

Proxy Settings Enhancement

All proxy settings for both the OfficeScan server and OfficeScan agents have been consolidated in the same location.

Suspicious Object Lists

OfficeScan supports the detection of Suspicious Domain Objects through integration with Control Manager.

What's New in OfficeScan XG

Ransomware Protection enhancements

Your protection against ransomware attacks has been further enhanced to allow OfficeScan agents to recover files encrypted by ransomware threats, block processes associated with ransomware, and prevent compromised executable files from infecting your network.

Newly Encountered Program protection enhancement

To more easily maximize your ransomware protection security policy on individual agents, the newly encountered program detection feature has been moved to the Behavior Monitoring settings screen.

You can also customize the message that displays on agent endpoints after a user downloads and executes a newly encountered program.

Predictive Machine Learning

The Predictive Machine Learning engine can protect your network from new, previously unidentified, or unknown threats through advanced file feature analysis and heuristic process monitoring. Predictive Machine Learning can ascertain the probability that a threat exists in a file or process and the probable threat type, protecting you from zero-day attacks.

OfficeScan Edge Relay Server

The OfficeScan Edge Relay server provides you greater visibility and increased protection for endpoints that leave the local intranet by providing the following features:

Suspicious File Sample Submission

To further enhance your integration with a Deep Discovery Virtual Analyzer, OfficeScan agents can now detect and send suspicious files that may contain previously unknown threats directly to the Virtual Analyzer for further analysis. After verifying that a threat exists, the Suspicious Object lists are immediately updated and synchronized to all agents, preventing the threat from spreading across your network.

Dashboard UI enhancements

The Dashboard has been redesigned to provide better visibility of your network's protection status.

Control Manager integration enhancements

To prevent unauthorized communication between the Control Manager and OfficeScan servers, registration to the Control Manager server requires certificate authentication and policy management through the Control Manager server is managed using public-key encryption.

Anti-exploit protection

Real-time Scan allows you to detect and block threats using Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) exploits.

Behavior Monitoring can also detect abnormal program behavior that is common to exploit attacks.

Suspicious Connections enhancement

You can now configure the Suspicious Connections feature to log or block network connections detected by the Global C&C IP list and malware network fingerprinting.

Firewall enhancements

The application filter of the OfficeScan Firewall now supports Windows 8 and later platforms.

You can grant OfficeScan agent users the privilege of configuring the firewall security level and exceptions list.

Independent mode

The previously named "Roaming" mode has been renamed as "Independent" mode.

Platform and browser support

This version of OfficeScan provides support for the following:

Note: This version of OfficeScan discontinues support of the Apache Web Server.

 

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Resolved Known Issues

OfficeScan SaaS XG Service Pack 1 resolves the following product issues:

For information regarding hot fix solutions and the enhancements available in OfficeScan SaaS XG Service Pack 1, go to:

http://esupport.trendmicro.com/solution/en-US/1118551.aspx

 

 

3. Document Set

The document set for the OfficeScan server includes:

Download the latest versions of the PDF documents and readme at http://docs.trendmicro.com/en-us/enterprise/officescan.aspx.

 

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4. System Requirements

The OfficeScan server and agent can be installed on endpoints running Microsoft Windows platforms. The OfficeScan agent is also compatible with various third-party products.

Visit the following website for a complete list of system requirements and compatible third-party products:

http://docs.trendmicro.com/en-us/enterprise/officescan.aspx

Size of Deployment Package (from the OfficeScan-as-a-Service Control Manager console)

Note: All of the following deployment package sizes are for packages that do not include any additional plug-in features. The size of the deployment package may vary if additional plug-in features are included in the package.

For the fully-functional OfficeScan agent MSI Setup Package:

For the coexist OfficeScan agent MSI Setup Package:

 

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5. Installation

See the Installation and Upgrade Guide for instructions on:

For OfficeScan agent installation instructions, refer to the Administrator's Guide.

 

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6. Known Issues

The following are the known issues in this release:

Agent Installation, Upgrade, and Uninstallation

  1. When an application that locks the Windows Service Control Manager (SCM) is launched, the OfficeScan agent cannot be installed or upgraded. Before upgrading or installing OfficeScan, ensure that no SCM-locking application is running.

  2. The ServerProtect Normal Server Migration tool is unable to:

    To resolve these issues, open Registry Editor on the Normal Server and Information Server and add following registry key:

  3. Microsoft IIS 7 does not work when installing the OfficeScan agent to a Windows Server 2008 endpoint with Microsoft IIS 7. All applications using IIS do not work.

    4. A message displays on the endpoint using Windows Server 2008 without Service Pack 2, instructing the user to restart the IIS service to resolve the issue.

  4. The OfficeScan agent may not install correctly if Norton SystemWorks™ antivirus is installed on the endpoint. Uninstall it before installing OfficeScan agent.
  5. If the OfficeScan agent is installed using the "per-user" method, the OfficeScan agent shortcut will still show on all the users' Windows Start menu.
  6. After an OfficeScan agent in a VPN environment is uninstalled successfully, the agent is not removed on the web console's agent tree and its status is offline.
  7. Installing OfficeScan agents to Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 using a GUEST OS running on VMware Workstation 6.x and below may cause the system to stop responding. This is because of compatibility issues with the Intel™ Network Adapter Driver.
  8. If you add the OfficeScan agent program to the Microsoft Software Restriction Policy list using the user interface, you may need to restart the endpoint before subsequent additions to the list take effect.
  9. After rolling back a component on an OfficeScan agent, the Component Update Details screen displays "n/a" under the Notification Sent and Notification Received columns.

Scanning

  1. A Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine might not be able to start if the host endpoint has OfficeScan agent installed. This is because the OfficeScan agent and Hyper-V virtual machine access the same Hyper-V xml file, which causes file access violation. As a workaround:

  2. When specifying the scan target for Scheduled Scan, Scan Now and Real-time Scan, spyware/grayware scan can be disabled. However, for Manual Scan, there is no option for disabling spyware/grayware scan, which means that during Manual Scan, OfficeScan will always scan for spyware/grayware.
  3. When OfficeScan is configured to scan mapped drives during Manual Scan, the mapped drive may not get scanned when scanning is initiated through Terminal Service client.
  4. When an email containing an attachment with spyware/grayware is retrieved through Eudora email client and POP3 Mail Scan is disabled, OfficeScan's Real-time Scan denies access to the email even if the scan action is "clean". The email does not appear on the inbox and the Eudora client displays a message informing the user that access to the email is denied.

  5. In a Citrix environment, when the OfficeScan agent detects a security risk during a particular user session, the notification message for the security risk displays on all active user sessions.

    Security risk can be any of the following:

  6. After the Damage Cleanup Engine cleans a malicious file, the infection channel always displays as "Local or network drive" regardless of the actual source of the infection.

Server Update

  1. When updating OfficeScan patterns and engines from Control Manager, administrators are not notified of the update status even if notifications are enabled. The update status can be viewed from the Control Manager console.

Agent Update

  1. OfficeScan agents with agent-level settings can only download settings from the OfficeScan server, not Update Agents.
  2. An Update Agent running a 64-bit platform is unable to generate incremental patterns. Therefore, the Update Agent always downloads all incremental patterns available in the ActiveUpdate server, regardless of how many of these patterns it has previously downloaded.
  3. When the server and agent endpoints are located on geographical locations with different time zones, the agent cannot be configured to update based on the server's time zone.

Server Management

  1. When the endpoint's date/time format is changed, the date/time format on the OfficeScan console does not automatically change.

  2. Users are unable to collapse the agent management tree menu items on the User Account - Step 3 Define Agent Tree Menu screen when configuring User Accounts on Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 platforms running Internet Explorer 11. To resolve this issue:

    Install the Internet Explorer 11 hotfix from the Microsoft Windows Update site: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2884101/en-us.

  3. After expanding the menu items when creating or modifying a User Role or User Account, you cannot collapse the the menu items again in Internet Explorer 11.

Agent Management

  1. Agent names in the OfficeScan agent tree supports only 15 characters and truncates the succeeding characters.
  2. Double-byte characters (characters typically used in East Asian languages) cannot be used when specifying the notification message for virus/malware infection source (Administration > Notifications > Agents > Virus/Malware tab).
  3. If the agent security level configured on the web console is set to "High", connection through Nortel VPN client cannot be established.
  4. Select the Show icon and notifications option to display the OfficeScan icon in the Windows 7 and 8 system tray. The default option for Windows 7 and 8 is Only show notification.
  5. Some agent console screens include a Help button, which, when clicked, opens context-sensitive, HTML-based Help. Because Windows Server Core 2008 lacks a browser, the Help will not be available to the user. To view the Help, the user must install a browser.
  6. The Prompt users before executing newly encountered programs downloaded through web or email application channels (Server platforms excluded) feature only monitors ports 80, 81, and 8080 on certain Windows platforms that require the TmProxy.exe service.

Device Control

  1. If the Device Control permission for USB storage devices is changed from "Allow" to "Block" when USB storage device files are already opened on the agent endpoint, access to the opened files is still permitted. The Block permission is updated the next time that the USB device is plugged in, or the agent endpoint is restarted.
  2. Device management applications (such as iTunes, HTCSync, and SamSung Kies) for devices blocked by Device Control are also blocked from user access.

Data Loss Prevention

  1. Data transmitted through Instant Messaging applications are not detected if the applications use a non-transparent proxy server.
  2. Data Loss Prevention logs can only display the first 1000 bytes of characters in the Source and Destination columns due to a buffer overflow issue with long file names.

OfficeScan Firewall

  1. The Firewall rule for outgoing traffic will not work as expected if a machine has several IP addresses with different Firewall policies.

  2. When the security level on a Citrix server is medium or high, perform the following steps:

    1. On the OfficeScan server web console, create a new firewall policy.
    2. Add the following port numbers to the policy's exclusion list: 1494, 2598
    3. Go to Agents > Firewall > Profiles and click Assign Profile to Agents.
  3. The OfficeScan firewall service and driver cannot be installed if a previous version of the firewall driver exists and is running but there is no Trend Micro Common Firewall in the network protocol.

Smart Scan

  1. Only Internet Explorer is supported for configuring proxy settings used by agents to connect to the Global Smart Protection Server. If proxy settings are configured in other browsers, agents will not be able to connect to the Global Smart Protection Server.

Web Reputation

  1. If you enable the option Check HTTPS URLs in a Web Reputation policy:

    1. Select the option Enable third-party browser extensions in Internet Explorer. If this option is disabled, agents will not be able to check the reputation of HTTPS websites.
    2. For agents running Windows Server 2008 (32-bit), disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (IE ESC) from Windows Server Manager. If IE ESC is enabled, the Web Reputation blocking page displays in source code mode.

  2. Agents can browse blocked sites if using Juniper Networks VPN and proxy servers to connect to the Internet. To resolve this issue:

    1. Connect to the network using Juniper Networks VPN.
    2. Open Internet Option > Connection > LAN Settings.
    3. Disable Automatic configuration settings.
    4. Enable Proxy server and specify the IP address and port of your proxy server.
    5. Click Ok.
  3. If users access the Internet using Firefox and a proxy server, be sure that proxy settings in Internet Explorer have been configured. If proxy settings have not been configured in Internet Explorer, Web Reputation will not work, even if proxy settings have been configured in Firefox.
  4. On the OfficeScan agent endpoint, Web Reputation automatic proxy detection in Internet Explorer does not work if the administrator enables the OfficeScan Agent Access Restriction option on the OfficeScan server web console's Privileges and Other Settings screen.
  5. OfficeScan agents running in coexist mode do not support checking HTTPS URLs using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or Firefox browsers because this feature requires the Unauthorized Change Prevention Service. To resolve this issue, switch the OfficeScan agents to use the full feature set.

Predictive Machine Learning

  1. The logged "User Account" may display inaccurate data. If another user logs onto an endpoint before a Predictive Machine Learning query result completes, OfficeScan logs the newly logged on user as the event owner when the query returns.

Cloud Synchronization Channel Support

  1. OfficeScan does not provide support of the Windows 8.1 pre-installed OneDrive (SkyDrive) synchronization folder. OfficeScan logs malware infections for OneDrive (SkyDrive) as being in the "Local or network drive" channel.
  2. If you disable the Unauthorized Change Prevention Service, the OfficeScan agent may lock files during the sychronization process and prevent the files from synchronizing to the sync folder. To resolve this issue, enable the Unauthorized Change Prevention Service.
  3. OfficeScan logs malicious files that do not include a portable executable extension as being in the "Local or network drive" channel.
  4. OfficeScan logs malicious files synchronized to mounted drives as being in the "Local or network drive" channel.

Control Manager Integration

  1. The Integrated Windows Authentication protocol is not supported when registering OfficeScan to Control Manager and specifying web server authentication credentials for the IIS server. Only basic access authentication is supported.

Online Help

  1. The Online Help system experiences scripting errors when viewed using Internet Explorer 8.0 and earlier. Apply the following Windows fix to solve the problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/175500/en-us.

Additional Release Notes

  1. Download the latest components after upgrading to keep your security risk protection current.

 

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7. Contact Information

A license to the Trend Micro software usually includes the right to product updates, pattern file updates, and basic technical support for one (1) year from the date of purchase only. After the first year, Maintenance must be renewed on an annual basis at Trend Micro's then-current Maintenance fees.

You can contact Trend Micro via fax, phone, and email, or visit us at http://www.trendmicro.com.

Evaluation copies of Trend Micro products can be downloaded from our website.

 

Global Mailing Address/Telephone numbers

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Note: This information is subject to change without notice.

 

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8. About Trend Micro

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in Internet content security and threat management, aims to create a world safe for the exchange of digital information for businesses and consumers. A pioneer in server-based antivirus with over 20 years experience, we deliver top-ranked security that fits our customers' needs, stops new threats faster, and protects data in physical, virtualized and cloud environments. Powered by the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ infrastructure, our industry-leading cloud-computing security technology and products stop threats where they emerge, on the Internet, and are supported by 1,000+ threat intelligence experts around the globe. For additional information, visit http://www.trendmicro.com.

Copyright 2017, Trend Micro Incorporated. All rights reserved. Trend Micro, the t-ball logo and OfficeScan are trademarks of Trend Micro Incorporated and are registered in some jurisdictions. All other product or company names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners.

 

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9. License Agreement

Information about your license agreement with Trend Micro can be viewed at http://us.trendmicro.com/us/about/company/user_license_agreements/.

License Attributions can be viewed from the OfficeScan web console.

 

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