McAfee System Protection McAfee® GroupShield® for Microsoft® Exchange 5.5 Part of the McAfee Secure Content Management family, McAfee® GroupShield® for Microsoft® Exchange 5.5 provides comprehensive threat protection for the email and other content entering and leaving your Exchange environment. Proactive anti-virus scanning and an automatic outbreak manager prevent malicious code from disrupting the system, while automatic content filtering blocks suspicious messages and attachments before they become a problem. See Key Benefits See System Requirements

Key Benefits
Proactive threat protection – GroupShield employs the renowned McAfee scan engine’s advanced heuristics and generic detection to protect—in advance—against new viruses and other threats Content filtering – GroupShield prevents potential problems by blocking suspicious files and messages before they impact users Centralized management and reporting – Integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® provides a complete security management solution from a single console, including detailed graphical reporting Automatic, programmable outbreak response – The McAfee Outbreak Manager feature takes preprogrammed action to contain any sudden virus outbreak Multiple scanning modes – Multi-mode scanning (VS-API/MAPI or ESE) enables the scan method to be immediately changed, without reinstalling software
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Product Features Unparalleled, proactive threat protection The McAfee anti-virus scan engine stops every type of virus and malicious code threat, including “traditional” viruses, email worms, Internet worms, DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, backdoor and remote access Trojans, and zombies. Using technology that drills down into compressed data, GroupShield 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 GroupShield to protect—in advance—against new, unseen viruses and other threats.
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Automatic content filtering McAfee GroupShield provides administrators with tools to block files and messages likely to contain hostile code, based on subject-line keywords, attachment file names, file extensions, or a combination of criteria.
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Centralized management and reporting McAfee GroupShield integrates with 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, providing an enterprise-level console to manage your McAfee GroupShield deployment.
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Outbreak response Using rules defined by the administrator, Outbreak Manager searches for new attacks by looking for activities typical of virus outbreaks. When a virus outbreak is detected, Outbreak Manager can either email the administrator and wait for further instructions, or automatically execute pre-determined tasks to secure the email environment against possible infection, requiring no manual intervention.
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Multi-mode scanning GroupShield provides the ability to change scanning modes immediately, without stopping to reinstall software. GroupShield continues to leverage Microsoft’s Virus Scanning API (AV-API 1.0) in combination with Microsoft Messaging API (MAPI), and can now be configured to use Microsoft’s Extensible Storage Engine (ESE).
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Incremental on-demand scanning Once-only scanning reduces server load and increases performance. If a file has been found not to be virus-infected, it will not be scanned again unless it has been changed or a new virus definition update is received.
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Clustered server support GroupShield for Exchange 5.5 provides full support for Active-Active, Active-Passive, NT 4.0, and Windows 2000 server clustering.
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	Pentium 300 or higher
	64MB (Windows NT) 256MB (Windows 2000)
	500MB Free disk space

	Windows NT 4.0 SP4+ or Windows 2000 Server
	Microsoft Exchange 5.5 SP3+