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McAfee® VirusScan® 8.0i takes anti-virus
protection to the next level, integrating
elements of intrusion prevention and
firewall technology into a single solution
for PCs and file servers. This powerful
combination delivers truly proactive
protection from the newest of today’s
threats—including buffer-overflow exploits
and blended attacks—and features advanced
outbreak management responses to reduce the
damage and costs of outbreaks. Everything is
managed by McAfee
ePolicy Orchestrator® or
ProtectionPilot™ for scalable security
policy compliance and graphical reporting.
See Key Benefits
See System Requirements
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- ProductsIntegrated firewall and
IPS technology – Addition of
firewall and intrusion prevention
technology delivers maximum proactive
protection in a single, integrated
package
- Enhanced
coverage for emerging threats –
VirusScan 8.0i provides protection from
the newest potentially unwanted program
security threats (e.g., spyware),
application-specific buffer overflow
attacks, and blended attacks
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Lowered TCO during outbreak response –
Advanced outbreak functionality closes
the window of vulnerability before DAT
files are available, limiting damage by
blocking the entrance and spread of the
outbreak
- McAfee
scanning technology – Award-winning
McAfee scan engine performs in-memory
scanning to block threats such as Netsky
and CodeRed, which don’t write their
code to disk
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Centralized management and reporting –
Integration with McAfee ePolicy
Orchestrator and ProtectionPilot
provides a complete security management
solution, including detailed graphical
reporting, from a single console
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Product Features
Comprehensive McAfee anti-virus protection
The McAfee anti-virus scan engine stops
every type of virus and malicious code
threat, including macro viruses, Trojans,
Internet worms, advanced 32-bit viruses, and
even hostile ActiveX and Java objects. Using
technology that drills down into compressed
data, VirusScan is also able to find hidden
threats buried in .zip and other compressed
file types. Proactive protection is
delivered through advanced heuristics and
generic detection, which allow VirusScan to
protect—in advance—against new, unseen
viruses and other threats.
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Potentially unwanted program security
Automatic detection of potentially unwanted
programs helps keep businesses and users
safe from hidden programs that track
Internet usage, access personal data such as
passwords and account information, or open
security holes. Users or administrators can
select one of several responses (Alert,
Clean, Remove, and Quarantine) for VirusScan
to take when it detects a potentially
unwanted program. Administrators can even
define a custom list of company-specific
unwanted programs such as adware, dialers,
or joke programs to help keep company
end-point systems COE compliant.
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Buffer overflow prevention (IPS feature)
VirusScan 8.0i protects against buffer
overflows for approximately 20 of the most
commonly used and exploited software
applications and Microsoft® Windows® OS
services, including Microsoft Word, Excel,
Internet Explorer, Outlook, and SQL Server.
Administrators have the ability to create
exceptions by process when necessary.
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Complete outbreak response
The built-in outbreak response features in
VirusScan 8.0i provide protection from new
viruses before DAT files are
available, enabling administrators to take
action in the crucial vulnerability window
that exists after a virus is identified but
before a DAT has been released. Outbreak
response functionality includes: -
Port blocking/lockdown (firewall
feature)
Allows the
administrator or user to "turn off"
(block) specified ports from either
outbound or inbound network traffic (for
example, for MyDoom port #3196 should
have been blocked; Bagel.n was port
#2556) - Application
monitoring: email engines (firewall
feature)
Allows administrators
to block outbound ports, but set rules
that allow certain processes to
communicate through a closed port. For
example, administrators could block port
25 to outbound traffic but allow
outlook.exe to communicate outbound
through the port. NetSky and MyDoom
would not have gotten out of the system
with this feature turned on. -
File blocking, directory lockdown,
folder/share blocking (IPS feature)
Creation of a policy (or policies) that
controls the permitted actions that can
occur to a specified file, directory, or
folder/share (or group of files,
folders, etc., with matching name
pattern composed of text and wildcard
symbols) by system or incoming network
processes. For example, the policy for
the Sasser worm would have blocked
avserve*.exe, skynetave.exe, lsasss.exe,
napatch.exe, *_up.exe, cmd.ftp,
ftplog.txt, winlog2.*, and win*.log. -
Infection trace and block
VirusScan can discover and trace the IP
address of the end-point system
(infection source) that sent malicious
code to a system running VirusScan
Enterprise 8.0i, reporting the infection
source information back to the
management console. Optionally, it can
block further communications from the
infection source end-point system for a
specified time period (configurable) or
indefinitely (until reset).
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Powerful memory scanning
VirusScan 8.0i has enhanced scanning
functionality to include on-demand and
scheduled in-memory scanning for viruses,
worms, and Trojans. This protects your
systems from threats such as CodeRed and
SQLSlammer, which don’t write their code to
disk, by removing the process from memory.
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Centralized management and reporting
VirusScan 8.0i integrates with McAfee
ePolicy Orchestrator—one of the only truly
scalable security policy management
tools—for policy management, detailed
graphical reporting, and software
deployment. ePolicy Orchestrator is a
centralized authority to enforce protection
compliance, providing a single console to
manage your McAfee deployments. Optionally,
small and medium-sized businesses can take
advantage of the user-friendly McAfee
ProtectionPilot management console for
streamlined administration and monitoring.
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Enhanced email scanning
VirusScan 8.0i can scan all Lotus Notes
client email coming to the desktop—both HTML
text and attachments—in addition to
Microsoft Outlook. Support is extended to
systems with both Outlook and Lotus clients
installed.
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Protection from threats that use scripts
VirusScan 8.0i prevents infection from
occurring by detecting and preventing the
execution of malicious code that leverages
JavaScript and/or Visual Basic (VB) scripts
(for example, Nimda or LoveLetter).
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Optimized for mobile users
Geographical server routing allows field
updates to be optimized based on physical
location and connection speed, while file
sizes are small enough to be easily
downloaded across slow network connections
such as dial-up. Resumable updating enables
remote users to resume updates at a later
date, even if their connection is broken.
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Note: The following are minimum
system requirements only. Actual
requirements will vary depending on the
nature of your environment.
Workstation requirements

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Pentium or Celeron
processor running a minimum of
166MHz
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32MB of RAM
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Minimum 38MB free disk
space
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Windows NT 4.0 SP6 or
greater
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Windows XP Home and
Professional SP1
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Windows 2000
Professional SP3 or later
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Microsoft Internet
Explorer, version 5.0 or higher
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NOTE: VirusScan 4.5.1
supports Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME.
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Server Requirements

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Pentium, Celeron, or
Itanium processor running a minimum
of 166MHz
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32MB of RAM
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Minimum 38MB free disk
space
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Windows NT 4.0 Server,
SP 6 or greater; Windows NT 4.0
Enterprise Server, SP6 or greater
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Windows 2000 Server SP1
or greater; Windows 2000 Advanced
Server SP1 or greater
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Windows Server 2003:
Standard, Enterprise, or Web Edition
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Microsoft Cluster
Server (MSCS)
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Other supported
platforms: XP Tablet PC, Citrix
MetaFrame 1.8 & XP Support; EMC
Celerra File Server Support
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Microsoft Internet
Explorer, version 5.0 or higher
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