McAfee VIRUSSCAN 4.5 Administrator's Manual page 12

Preface
• System memory, boot sectors, and master boot records. You can configure
regularly scheduled scan operations that examine these favorite virus
hideouts, or set up periodic operations whenever a threat seems likely.
• Microsoft Exchange mailboxes. VirusScan software includes a specialized
E-Mail Scan extension that assumes your network user's Microsoft
Exchange or Outlook identity to scan his or her mailbox directly—before
viruses get downloaded to the local workstation. This can prevent some
Melissa-style infections and avoid infections from the next generation of
VBS/Bubbleboy descendants.
• Internet mail and file downloads. The VShield scanner includes two
modules that specialize in intercepting SMTP and POP-3 e-mail messages,
and that can examine files your network users download from Internet
sites. The E-Mail Scan and Download Scan modules work together to scan
the stream of file traffic that most workstations generate and receive daily.
• Hostile code. The Olympus scan engine at the heart of VirusScan software
routinely looks for suspicious script code, macro code, known Trojan horse
programs—even virus jokes or hoaxes. With the help of the VShield
Internet Filter module, it also blocks hostile ActiveX and Java objects, many
of which can lurk unnoticed on websites, waiting to deploy sophisticated
virus-like payloads. The Internet Filter module can even block entire
websites, preventing network users from visiting sites that pose a threat to
network integrity.
VirusScan software ties these powerful scanning capabilities together with a
powerful set of alerting, updating, and management tools. These include:
• Alert Manager client configuration. VirusScan software includes a client
configuration utility you can use to have it pass alert messages directly to
Alert Manager servers on your network, to a Centralized Alerting share, or
to a Desktop Management Interface administrative application. Other alert
methods include local custom messages and beeps, detection alerts and
response options, and e-mail alert messages.
• Next-generation AutoUpdate and AutoUpgrade utilities. AutoUpdate v4.5
features complete and transparent support for new incremental .DAT file
updates, which save you time and network bandwidth by adding only
virus definitions you don't already have installed on your system. The new
AutoUpgrade version includes support for v1.2 of the McAfee SuperDAT
utility, which you can use to update the Olympus scan engine and its
support files.
• Integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator management software.
Centralized anti-virus management takes a quantum leap forward with
this highly scalable management tool. VirusScan software ships with a
plug-in library file that works with the ePolicy Orchestrator server to
enforce enterprise-wide network security policies.
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