VirusScan

Trusted by individual users and large companies alike, McAfee VirusScan is the world's premier virus detection and removal solution for a major source of infection: your desktop machines. With the broadest platform coverage, VirusScan fits seamlessly into any networked environment with a wide array of proactive manageability and visibility features, ensuring the most effective virus security solution for all your users.

Features:

Lower Cost of Ownership
As a virus spreads throughout your enterprise, the costs to your organization grow exponentially-especially when customers are exposed. VirusScan helps you detect, clean and remove viruses and malicious code attacks at the furthest reaches of your network-the end-user desktops. This comprehensive solution lowers your costs, continues your secure information flow, and allows your staff to focus on their primary tasks.

Flexible Scanning Options
VirusScan provides comprehensive protection for your organization's desktop machines, capturing both known and new viruses before they infect multiple users. The award-winning scanning engine delivers high-speed scans of all files in real time, supporting all major file compression formats. Detected viruses can be automatically cleaned, deleted, or even quarantined for future analysis and origin tracing. VirusScan also includes flexible on-demand and scheduled scanning capabilities. With a simple point-and-click, administrators can configure any number of selective scan tasks to run at different intervals.

Content Scanning
E-mail and the Internet represent the fastest growing source of virus distribution, so it is imperative that your desktop virus security solution is equipped with the tools to defend against such threats. VirusScan e-mail X-ray stops viruses hidden in e-mail attachments before they infect other users. Java and ActiveX scanning also prevent malicious Internet-borne attacks.

Fast, Effective Updates
The McAfee VirusScan engine has more independent certification of 100% detection and cleaning than any other solution. Nevertheless, with more than 50,000 viruses in the wild, and 300 new ones cropping up every month, a virus security solution is only as good as its most recent update. VirusScan"s Incremental AutoUpdate provides the first true incremental updating, allowing you to upgrade your virus security at 20 times faster speeds.

Enterprise Management
VirusScan is fully integrated with McAfee Active Virus Defense management solutions, offering centralized control over desktop virus security. Advanced logging and reporting capabilities help companies proactively defend against potential outbreaks. By allowing complete configuration lock-down and integrating with leading third-party tools such as Microsoft SMS, Tivoli TME, and Novell ZenWorks, McAfee's Active Virus Defense management tools offer true enterprise-level control.

Centralized Policy Management
From one console you can configure and run VirusScan as granular as you'd like. Configurations such as automatic product updates, daily scans, and DAT file updates are easily managed and enforced by ePolicy Orchestrator. Agents can be deployed via a drop and drag interface or e-mail. This army of virus fighters reports back to the administrator in charge. ePolicy Orchestrator makes McAfee VirusScan a key element of McAfee Active Virus Defense, providing multi-tier security against today's virus assaults.

Advanced Enterprise Reporting
VirusScan'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.

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 single point of failure.

Protection from the Newest Threats
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. VirusScan employs Virtran, a virus specific scripting language that creates detectors and cleaners in seconds-a quicker fix for the most ferocious new viruses.

AVERT
VirusScan 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.

Other VirusScan Features:

100% Detection & Cleaning
VirusScan's award winning scanning and cleaning engine is proven effective with more independent certifications of 100% detection and cleaning than any other in the world.

Broadest Platform Support
VirusScan supports a broad range of platforms including Windows XP, 2000, NT4.0, and 9x; Linux; HP-UX; SCO; AIX; and Solaris.

ePolicy Orchestrator
VirusScan works in conjunction with ePolicy Orchestrator to provide turnkey software distribution, configuration management and policy enforcement scaleable to 100,000 users.

Automatic Updating
VirusScan's AutoUpdate feature uses pull technology to keep your virus protection current at all times.

Incremental Updating
Ensures lightning-fast DAT file update capabilities.

Complete Desktop Lock-down
Access to the configuration settings can be password protected to keep end-users from making unwanted policy changes at their desktops. The VirusScan service icon can even be hidden, making VirusScan a completely transparent solution in the desktop environment.

Superior E-mail Protection
VirusScan can scan for viruses at the desktop level via MAPI or POP3 for the broadest range of e-mail protection. The e-mail X-ray feature allows you to scan inside unopened attachments, ensuring the highest level of protection against the leading virus threat.

True Internet Protection
VirusScan protects the desktop environment from malicious code such as ActiveX, Java, and Java script applets on the Internet. VirusScan also provides content filtering with the capability to block hostile IP addresses or URLs.

Advanced Heuristics
VirusScan can detect unknown viruses better than any product on the market with its ViruLogic heuristic scanning capabilities. Using positive and negative heuristics, VirusScan compares the characteristics of viruses and clean files. The result is the world's best heuristic detection with the fewest possible false alarms.

System Requirements:

Note: The following are general system requirements only. Actual requirement will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, or 2000 Professional
16 Megabytes of RAM
Pentium-class or better processor
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