McAfee DR SOLOMON S ANTI-VIRUS 8.5 Administrator's Manual page 16

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. Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus 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 WinGuard 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 Dr Solomon's
Anti-Virus routinely looks for suspicious script code, macro code, known
Trojan horse programs—even virus jokes or hoaxes. With the help of the
WinGuard 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.
Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus ties these powerful scanning capabilities together
with a powerful set of alerting, updating, and management tools. These
include:
• Alert Manager client configuration. Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus 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 Dr Solomon's
SuperDAT utility, which you can use to update the Olympus scan engine
and its support files.
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