McAfee VIRUSSCAN 5.1 Getting Started Manual page 11

Installation and distribution features
McAfee anti-virus products, including VirusScan software, now use the
Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI), which comes with all Windows 2000
Professional systems. This Setup utility offers a wealth of custom installation
and configuration features that make VirusScan software rollout across large
organizations much easier and more intuitive. To learn more about how to run
custom Setup operations with MSI, see Chapter 2, "Installing VirusScan
Software" in the VirusScan Administrator's Guide.
Interface enhancements
This release moves the VirusScan interface for all supported platforms solidly
into the territory VirusScan anti-virus software for Windows 95, Windows 98
and Windows ME pioneered with its v4.0.1 release. This adds extensive
VShield scanner configuration options for the Windows NT Workstation v4.0
and Windows 2000 Professional platforms, while reducing the complexity of
some previous configuration options. Alert Manager server configuration, for
example, moves entirely over to the NetShield product line—VirusScan
software now acts strictly as a configurable client application.
This release also adds a new VirusScan control panel, which functions as a
central point from which you can enable and disable all VirusScan
components. This control panel also lets you set a ceiling for the number of
items you can scan in or exclude from a single operation, and can set the
VShield scanner and VirusScan control panel to run at startup. Other changes
include:
• New VShield system tray icon states tell you more about which VShield
modules are active. These states are:
– All VShield modules are active
– The System Scan module is active, but one or more of the other
VShield modules is inactive
– The System Scan module is inactive, but one or more of the other
VShield modules is active
– All VShield modules are inactive
• New interface settings for task configuration allow you to tell the
VirusScan application how you want it to appear as your scheduled task
runs and what you want it to do when it finishes. You can also set a
password to protect individual task settings from changes, or to protect an
entire task configuration at once.
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