McAfee VIRUSSCAN ENTERPRISE User manual

Data Sheet
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise
Protect your desktop and file servers from malicious threats
Keeping networks free from a wide range of
threats—viruses, worms, rootkits, and Trojans—
is more challenging than ever. Whether you are
a global enterprise or a small or medium-sized
business that has a full-time security staff, McAfee®
VirusScan®Enterprise ensures that your endpoint
servers, desktops, and laptops remain malware free.
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise proactively stops and removes
threats, extends coverage for new security risks, and
reduces the cost of managing outbreak responses. And even
without an update, it stops zero-day threats and mitigates
the window of vulnerability—the time between when a
vulnerability is discovered and when fixes are deployed.
Plus, with VirusScan Enterprise, you have the flexibility to
detect and block malware based on your business needs: on
access, on demand, or on a schedule.
Unbeatable Malware Detection and Cleaning
VirusScan Enterprise uses the award-winning McAfee
scanning engine to detect and clean malware, and to
protect your files from viruses, worms, rootkits, Trojans, and
other threats. McAfee delivers comprehensive find-and-fix
solutions for today’s threats and uses behavioral analysis to
protect against new unknown threats.
Protect your systems with VirusScan Enterprise’s advanced
behavioral techniques. With port blocking, file-name
blocking, folder/directory lockdown, share lockdown, and
infection trace and block, you can stop many new and
unknown malware files cold.
Proactive Protection from Attacks
VirusScan Enterprise is the industry’s first anti-malware
software that offers intrusion prevention with application-
specific buffer-overflow technology. Now you can protect
your users proactively against buffer-overflow exploits
that target vulnerabilities in Microsoft®applications. And
enjoy a more robust and advanced level of endpoint system
security by integrating your anti-malware technology with
intrusion prevention. With VirusScan Enterprise, your
critical servers and data are kept intact and available for
business. For added protection, we lock down VirusScan
Enterprise files and services so that malicious threats and
attacks don’t disable them.
Potentially Unwanted Programs
Potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) include adware,
spyware, and keyloggers. You need to protect against PUPs
to maintain tight security and to protect sensitive company
assets. You can easily integrate McAfee AntiSpyware
Enterprise as a plug-in to VirusScan Enterprise to address
today’s complex virus and spyware threats. When you
do, you leverage the proactive technology of VirusScan
Enterprise to provide superior PUP protection.
Manage Your Security
Centralized management and enforcement is the key to
effective and efficient protection. VirusScan Enterprise
easily integrates with McAfee’s system security
management console, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator®(ePO™).
ePO provides centralized deployment, policy configuration
and enforcement, and detailed reporting of VirusScan
Enterprise, as well as many other McAfee security products.
Easily Manage Quarantined Files
Configure policies to manage quarantined items easily with
the Quarantine Policy Manager. Before an on-access or
on-demand scan cleans or deletes a file, it creates a backup
copy of the original file and registry value in the quarantine
directory. This improves your remediation capabilities in case
a file is accidentally marked as malicious and is quarantined.
Enhanced Email Scanning
VirusScan Enterprise includes the ability to scan Lotus
Notes email on client systems. It scans all Lotus Notes
client email (HTML text and attachments) that comes to
the desktop. Only a single configuration panel is needed,
regardless of the email client in use. And, if you have a
mixed environment, VirusScan Enterprise supports users
who are using both Outlook and Lotus Notes.

Data Sheet
Automatic Updates
Virus security products are only as good as their most recent
updates. With VirusScan Enterprise, automatic daily updates
ensure that your desktops and file servers are always up-to-date
with the latest McAfee DAT files and engines.
Protected by McAfee Avert Labs
McAfee Avert®Labs combines world-class malicious code
and anti-virus research with intrusion prevention and
vulnerability research expertise. Avert Labs protects you
with cures that are developed through the combined efforts
of Avert researchers and Avert AutoImmune technology,
which applies advanced heuristics, generic detection, and
ActiveDAT technology to generate cures for previously
undiscovered viruses.
McAfee Solution Services
Along with our McAfee SecurityAlliance™partners, we offer
a wide variety of services to help you assess, plan, deploy,
tune, and manage your security.
Technical Support
Make sure that everything runs smoothly during and after
installation with flexible programs from McAfee Technical
Support. Our highly skilled and certified security specialists
have a wealth of knowledge and resources to meet your
security needs.
Learn More
Visit www.mcafee.com, or call us at 888.847.8766, 24 hours
a day, seven days a week. McAfee VirusScan Enterprise is
part of the McAfee family of business security products
and services. McAfee provides a comprehensive portfolio
of dynamic risk management and mitigation solutions that
secure your business.
System Requirements
Note: The following are general system requirements and
may vary depending on the nature of your environment.
Workstation requirements
Microsoft Windows®platforms:
kWindows NT 4
kWindows 2000
kWindows XP (32-bit and 64-bit)
kWindows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
Server requirements
Microsoft Windows platforms:
kWindows NT 4 Server
kWindows NT 4 Terminal Server
kWindows 2000 Server
kWindows 2000 Advanced Server
kWindows 2000 DataCenter Server
kWindows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit and 64-bit)
kWindows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit and 64-bit)
kWindows Server 2003, Web Edition (32-bit and 64-bit)
kNote: 64-bit support is only supported on VirusScan
Enterprise 8.5i
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