Nope. There is no big heuristic launch prepared. The engine is in there and will be used when needed.
@kubecj
Hi, I may have misunderstood your last comment. Could you clarify which is correct:
1. I took the "engine is in there and is being tested" to mean "The capability is present currently, but we are still ironing out the bugs and refining it" rather than "the capability is present currently and when heuristics are set, the engine is testing files accessed heuristically for malware characteristics".
2, I also took "detections are being done in the standard way" to mean "we are only detecting malware using signature based detections, both specific and our well-known generic detections" rather than "When the heuristic engine detects malware heuristically, it is reported in the standard way as "malware-gen", but this may be refined or separated from signatured based "malware gen" detections in the future to something like "Heur-malware", etc
Based on your last post, it seems you are saying that heuristics are working in the publicly available build now, and adjusting the heuristic sensitivity WILL have an impact on how likely an unknown sample is to be reported as malware, but right now, heuristic detections are reported in a manner similar to generic detections, so the casual end-user would not know whether a sample is detected by heuristics or signature-based methods based solely on the name of the detection because both heuristic detections and signature based detections have indistinguishable detection names (e.g. heuristic detection of a sample with no matching generic signatures is reported as "malware-gen", but also a detected based off a generic signature may be reported as "malware-gen").
Thanks for your help so far.