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The ultimate way to keep viruses out of your Microsoft Windows operating systems

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise

 

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise Overview:

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise combines anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and intrusion prevention technologies to stop and remove malicious software. It also extends coverage to new security risks and reduces the cost of responding to outbreaks with the industry’s lowest impact on system performance.

Key Advantages:
Unbeatable Malware Detection and Cleaning
  • Protect your files from viruses, worms, rootkits, Trojans, and other threats

Proactive protection from zero-day attacks

  • Protect your users proactively against buffer-overflow exploits that trarget vulnerabilities in Microsoft applications

Leverage McAfee Global Threat Intelligence™ (McAfee GTI™)

  • The worldwide presence of McAfee Labs™ enables McAfee VirusScan Enterprise to leverage protection across file, network, web, message, and vulnerability data

Manage Your Security

  • McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO). ePO provides centralized deployment, policy configuration and enforcement, and detailed reporting of VirusScan Enterprise

Manage Quarantined Files

  • Easily Configure Policies to Manage Quarantined Items

Enhanced Email Scanning

  • Supports users who are using both Outlook and Lotus Notes


Description:

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise is an innovative technology for PCs and servers. It proactively stops and removes malicious software, extends coverage against new security risks, and reduces the cost of responding to outbreaks. Enterprises cannot afford to wait for every threat to be identified and a signature file to be released. The time between attack and subsequent identification is critical, and the shorter, the better. It's better yet if your protection technology identifies new, unknown threats.

By blending advanced anti-virus, firewall, and intrusion prevention technologies, VirusScan Enterprise covers a broad range of threats. With advanced heuristics and generic detection it finds even new, unknown viruses, even hidden in compressed files. McAfee VirusScan Enterprise looks for exploits known to target Microsoft applications and services and will identify and block threats that take advantage of JavaScript and VisualBasic coding.

And since virus protection is only as good as its latest update, the McAfee VirusScan Enterprise database is updated daily with information from McAfee Avert® Labs, one of the world's top threat research center.

With VirusScan Enterprise, you get:

Maximum defense against malware — Safeguards your systems and files from viruses, spyware, worms, Trojans, and other security risks. It detects and cleans malware, and allows you to easily configure policies to manage quarantined items.

Proactive protection from attacks — Real-time scanning ensures all your systems, including remote locations, are protected from current and emerging threats. VirusScan Enterprise also guards against buffer-overflow exploits that target vulnerabilities in Microsoft applications.

Easy, centralized management — The McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform is the centralized management console for deploying policies, managing security alerts, and viewing automated reports.

Low impact on performance — New for 2011, VirusScan Enterprise has been redesigned for performance, from startup to on-demand and on-access scanning. Independent tests show industry-leading performance of two to four times faster than the competition.

Enhanced security powered by McAfee Global Threat Intelligence — McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) is a comprehensive cloud-based threat intelligence service. Already integrated into McAfee security products, it works in real time, 24 hours a day, to protect customers against cyberthreats across all vectors — file, web, message, and network. McAfee GTI offers the broadest threat data, most robust data correlation, and most complete product integration in the industry. McAfee’s GTI network allows enabled products to evaluate threats on multiple vectors in real time, leading to faster identification of threats and higher capture rates. VirusScan Enterprise uses the McAfee GTI file reputation service to identify suspicious files before they are necessarily identified as carrying malicious payloads.

Benefits and Features:

Benefits:

  • Get maximum protection
    Gain maximum protection for your PCs and servers with combined anti-virus, firewall, and intrusion prevention technology
     
  • Block multiple types of threats
    Defend your systems against viruses, buffer overflows, and blended attacks
     
  • Minimize damage
    Limit the harm done to your PCs and servers with advanced outbreak functionality
     
  • Stop threats that write to memory
    Block threats that do not write to disk with in-memory scanning
     
  • Prevent rootkit infestation
    Stop rootkits and hidden files from installing
     
  • Single console
    Control and manage VirusScan from a single console with ePolicy Orchestrator and get detailed enterprise-level reporting
     
  • Hacker-proof protection
    Stop worrying about disruptions; malware or hackers cannot disable VirusScan Enterprise

  • Save money with efficient visibility and management
    Control and manage VirusScan Enterprise from one central McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) console, and get detailed enterprise-level reporting quickly and easily.

Features:

  • Cover all the bases
    Block a broad range of viruses and malicious code—even those hidden in compressed files; find new, unknown viruses with advanced heuristics and generic detection
     
  • Defend against threats that target Microsoft
    Guard against buffer-overflow exploits that aim at vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows operating system services, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft SQL Server. It also protects IIS services, WinZip, and Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Office Access, Microsoft Office Visio, Microsoft Windows Media Player, and Microsoft Messenger
     
  • Curb outbreak damage
    Limit outbreak damage, even before DAT files are issued; close ports, monitor applications and email engines, block files and directories, and trace and block infection sources
     
  • Scans memory for malicious code
    Detect threats that write to memory rather than disk, such as CodeRed and SQLSlammer
     
  • Protect email programs
    Detect and scour viruses in Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes—including HTML text and attachments
     
  • Keep script-type threats at bay
    Prevent threats that exploit JavaScript or Visual Basic from executing
     
  • Optimize updating for remote systems
    Tailor field updates to physical locations and connection speeds: resume updating after a broken connection is re-established
     
  • Lock down files
    Keep VirusScan Enterprise files from being altered with enhanced access protection rules
     
  • Advanced rootkit detection
    Scan system memory for installed rootkits, hidden processes, and other concealed malicious code

System Requirements:

These are minimum system requirements. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment. 64-bit operating system support is available for some technologies.

Workstation requirements:

  • Windows 7
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP Home, Professional, Embedded (WEPOS), Tablet PC
  • Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or higher
  • Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS)
  • Windows XP Embedded (SP2)
  • Windows XP Tablet PC Edition (SP2)

Server requirements

  • Windows 2008 Server, HyperV, Core, Datacenter, Storage Server, Cluster Server, Small Business Server
  • Windows 2003 Server, Storage Server, Cluster Server, Datacenter, Small Business Server
  • Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, Small Business Server
  • VMware ESX, ESXi
  • Citrix XenDesktop and XenServer

Documentation:

PDF File
Download the McAfee VirusScan Enterprise Datasheet (PDF).