McAfee System Protection McAfee® VirusScan® Command Line Scanner for Windows®/UNIX McAfee® VirusScan® command line scanners deliver the advanced anti-virus scanning technology of McAfee VirusScan in a UNIX- or Windows®-based utility. They provide proactive, comprehensive threat detection and cleaning with the granular control that only a command line scanner provides. See Key Benefits See System Requirements

Key Benefits
Complete threat protection  – Based on the award-winning McAfee scan engine, VirusScan employs comprehensive “find and fix” solutions to stop all types of viruses and other threats, including those hidden in compressed, archived, or packed files Flexibility and control – For situations that require the level of control only available through a command line scanner, VirusScan command line runs on Windows/DOS or a wide range of UNIX platforms Powerful memory scanning – Advanced in-memory scanning protects your system from threats such as CodeRed and SQLSlammer, which don’t write their code to disk Protection from tomorrow’s threats – VirusScan uses heuristic analysis and generic detection to protect—in advance—against new and unknown viruses Reliability and accuracy – With a proven track record and battle-tested technology, McAfee VirusScan provides reliable, accurate scanning without a false alarm problem
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Product Features Comprehensive McAfee anti-virus protection The renowned McAfee anti-virus scan engine stops all types of viruses and malicious code threats, 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, VirusScan is also able to find hidden threats buried in .zip and other compressed file types.
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Command line flexibility and control Some situations simply require the degree of control available only with a command line utility. Maybe you need to use a command line scanner alongside a third-party content filter at the Internet gateway, or perhaps you want to integrate a command line scanner into your own custom business application or process. McAfee VirusScan answers this need with comprehensive anti-virus protection that runs on Windows/DOS or a variety of UNIX platforms.
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Powerful memory scanning VirusScan 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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Protection from tomorrow’s threats The advanced heuristic analysis used by VirusScan looks through the code in a file, determining if the actions it takes are typical of a virus. The more “virus-like” code found, the more likely it is to be infected. To reduce the risk of false alarms, this “positive” heuristics approach is combined with “negative” heuristics, which searches for those things that are distinctly non-virus-like. In addition, VirusScan employs generic detection, which involves using a single virus definition to detect and clean many variants of the same virus family. This is especially useful today, when a “successful” threat is often followed by a host of variants.
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Reliability and accuracy Independent laboratory testing consistently awards McAfee VirusScan top marks for avoiding false alarms, which cost money and undermine confidence in a company's anti-virus defenses. Every week, McAfee virus definition (DAT) files undergo rigorous QA testing on a test server containing more than one-and-a-half terabytes of real-world applications, resulting in the most up-to-date, accurate detection possible.
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	IBM®-compatible PC with an Intel® 80386 processor or equivalent
	MS-DOS 6.22 [SCANPM.EXE], Windows 9x, Windows NT 4
	Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP
	4Mb hard disk space recommended
	4Mb memory recommended

	IBM AIX 4.2.1, 4.3.x and 5.0L, with all recommended patches installed
	Linux v2.x kernels up to, and including, v2.4 kernels with libc6 (glibc) and the stdc++ library v2.8.
	Free BSD 3.2 and 4.3.
	Hewlett Packard HP-UX 10.20, 10.30, 11.x and 11I, with all recommended patches installed
	Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) OpenServer Release 5 and SCO UnixWare 7.1.1.
	Sun Microsystems Solaris for SPARC architecture v2.5.1, 2.6, 7 and 8, with all recommended patches
	At least 10MB hard disk space
	McAfee recommends that you have root account permissions to install VirusScan for UNIX software and perform on-demand scan operations on your file system