NetShield for NT

More than just a nuisance, a virus outbreak that disrupts your e-business activity will actually affect profitability. In 1999, virus infections directly caused more than $12.1 billion in damages, more than twice that of all previous years combined. And in 2000 the "Love Bug" caused more than $6.7 billion in damages in just two weeks. NetShield was designed specifically to minimize the threat of such attacks. An award-winning anti-virus solution for Microsoft NT, NetShield combines advanced virus-scanning technology with unmatched management capabilities. It detects infected files transmitted to and from servers while scanning for viruses in other locations. Once detected, the infected file can be automatically cleaned, quarantined, or deleted. NetShield's powerful central management console gives you complete monitoring and configuration control over all protected servers-from any server or workstation. NetShield is also fully integrated with McAfee Active Virus Defense management solutions. It provides advanced logging and reporting and allows for complete configuration lock-down with leading third-party tools such as Microsoft SMS, TivoliTME and Novell Managewise.

Features

• Terminal Server Support
Today's environments put high demand on file servers. You need a solution that can protect high-capacity environments as well as single servers. Whether you're using Microsoft Terminal Servers on NT 4.0 or Windows 2000, or clustered servers, NetShield can keep your network protected. NetShield is one of the few server anti-virus products that protects these servers from malicious code.

• Lower Cost of Ownership
As a virus spreads throughout your enterprise, the costs to your organization grow exponentially-especially when customers are exposed. NetShield helps you detect, clean and remove viruses and malicious code with enterprise level manageability. This comprehensive solution lowers your costs, continues your secure information flow, and allows your technical staff to focus on their primary work tasks.

• Enterprise Management
NetShield is fully integrated with McAfee Active Virus Defense management solutions, offering centralized control over your virus security, enterprise-wide. Its advanced logging and reporting help you proactively protect against potential outbreaks. And NetShield allows for complete configuration lock-down and integrating with leading third-party tools such as Microsoft SMS, Tivoli TME, and Novell Managewise.

• Centralized Policy Management
From one console you can customize NetShield with configurations such as automatic product updates, daily scans, and DAT file updates-all of them will be easily managed, and enforced, by ePolicy Orchestrator. You can deploy agents via e-mail or a simple drag-and-drop. This army of virus fighters reports back to the administrator at the central console.

• Powerful Remote Managability
NetShield's powerful central management console gives you complete control over all protected NT and NetWare servers, from any NT server or workstation. You can perform complete remote installations from a local server or workstation. Customize the settings on each individual server. Or simply duplicate an existing configuration and deploy it to others. Either way, you're in control.

• Advanced Enterprise Reporting
NetShield's Anti-Virus Informant tells you exactly where a virus threatened your network and how many times it was stopped. It tells you whether your desktops, servers, groupware, and gateway machines are up-to-date with the latest DAT file and engine versions. And it delivers customized reports-in varied chart types including 3D bar charts, pie charts, line graphs, and tables. Anti-Virus Informant is also integrated with Seagate Crystal Reports technology and Microsoft's MSDE/SQL 7.0 server for enterprise level protection.

• Robust Administrator Alerting
When an infected file is detected, McAfee's flexible alerting features provide precise control over who is notified, and what message they receive. NetShield's powerful AlertManager feature allows administrators to activate and define any combination of system alerts, each of which can be selectively enabled and prioritized.

• Flexible Alert Management
NetShield gives you unparalleled control over how alerts are delivered. Context sensitive virus alerts can be delivered by email, printer, pager, or network message. NetShield's optional SNMP alerting can be used to automatically generate trouble tickets for Magic Solutions Total Service Desk or other popular help desk systems. And activity logs can also be isolated in a dedicated virus log.

• Flexible Scanning Options
NetShield provides comprehensive protection for network file servers, capturing both known and new viruses before they infect multiple users. The award-winning scanning engine scans all files in real-time, and supports all major file compression formats. Detected viruses can be automatically cleaned, deleted, or even quarantined for future analysis and origin tracing. NetShield also includes flexible on-demand and scheduled scanning capabilities.

• Fast Efficient Virus Updates
McAfee's groundbreaking Enterprise SecureCast technology ensures that your virus signature files and product versions are always the latest available. New updates are pushed directly to the administrator's desktop for easy, enterprise-wide distribution. And with new Incremental AutoUpdate you'll see download speeds increase by as much as 20 times.

• Powerful Multi-Tier Active Virus Defense
NetShield, together with VirusScan, GroupShield, WebShield, and the management tool set provide a comprehensible suite for desktops, file servers, groupware, and Internet gateways. This multi-tiered approach means that you're not relying on a a single point of failure.

• Protection from the Newest Threats
NetShield uses advanced heuristic technologies called ViruLogic to seek out previously undiscovered viruses. ViruLogic has the intelligence to know what characteristics viruses do and do not exhibit, giving you unparalleled virus detection with the fewest possible false alarms. When a new virus is confirmed, the cure is generated and distributed to infected systems. NetShield employs Virtran, a virus specific scripting language that creates detectors and cleaners in seconds-a quicker fix for the most ferocious new viruses.

• AVERT
McAfee NetShield enjoys full support from the Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team (AVERT), with more than 90 researchers around the world. No matter where or when a virus may surface, the McAfee virus experts will be on the scene quickly and fully armed to thwart the outbreak.

• Microsoft Back Office
NetShield provides anti-virus protection for key Microsoft BackOffice server components, including:
Microsoft Clustering Server
Microsoft Terminal server
NetShield protection also extends to file system support for Microsoft's Distributed File System.

System Requirements

Note: The following are general system requirements only. Actual requirement will vary depending on the nature of your environment.
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 with SP 4 or 5, Windows 2000 Server, or Advanced Server
64 Megabytes of RAM
Pentium/Alpha or compatible processor