McAfee Secure sites help keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams
Business Home → Products & Solutions → Endpoint Protection
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images

Purpose-built security for virtual environments

Next Steps:

Overview

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images — the first dedicated security solution for virtual machines (VMs) — protects your virtual environment and corporate network by automatically scanning, cleaning, and updating VMs before they go online.

VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images offers:

An optimized solution — Developed specifically to work with all major virtualization environments, including Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware.

Scalable security — Provides on-demand protection for an unlimited number of VMs.

Comprehensive, cost-effective protection — Reduces IT overhead with integrated protection for pre-production (testing and development) and production (disaster recovery) virtual environments.

Features & Benefits

Secure your VMs and protect your enterprise

Automatically scan, clean, and update virtual machines (VMs) while they’re offline to eliminate the risk of dormant VMs threatening your corporate network.

Save money with automatic updates

Count on automatic, real-time, anti-malware updates via Artemis Technology from McAfee Labs to maintain the latest threat protection without bringing VMs online, thus allowing your IT staff to focus on other issues.

Save time with unified security management

Minimize IT efforts and reduce operating costs with common security management via the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform, for both physical and virtual environments.

Save trouble with a single solution

Reduce IT migration issues with one security solution that supports all top virtualization vendors, including Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware.

Facilitate real-time disaster recovery

Secure offline VMs at secondary sites.

Support regulatory compliance

Scan and update offline virtual images periodically to enable archiving for longer periods.

System Requirements

These are minimum system requirements. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

Supported Operating Systems

  • Microsoft Windows Vista base or higher (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or higher (no support for XP 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit; no support for Server Cores)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or higher: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (no support for Server 2003 64-bit)

Supported VMware Images

  • Supports images using the Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK) and Open Virtualization Format (OVF) specification
  • Microsoft Windows 7, all versions
  • Microsoft Windows Vista base or higher (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows XP with SP1 or higher (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 with SP4
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)

Supported Microsoft Virtual PC Images

  • Supports images using the Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk Image Format specification
  • Microsoft Windows Vista base or higher (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows XP with SP1 or higher (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 with SP4
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or higher: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)

News / Events

News

No results found

Events

No results found

On Demand

No results found

Resources

Data Sheets

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images

For a technical summary on the McAfee product listed above, please view the product data sheet.

Reports

White Papers

Community

Blogs

  • Deep Defender: Protecting Customers Beyond the Operating System
    Lang Tibbils - May 17, 2013
    Read the news on any given day and you’ll see a constant barrage of headlines detailing banks, gaming companies, and even news organizations being hacked by cyber criminals. These criminals can steal credentials, personal employee or customer information, and even intellectual property. Customers want to make news headlines – but not as the victim of Read more...
  • McAfee vs. Symantec: Who came out on Top?
    Gavin Struthers - May 16, 2013
    Everyone loves a good game and the thrill of competing to win. Competition helps inspire two teams to push further and the fans to cheer harder. In business, as in the case of McAfee and Symantec, our rivalry means we create better products, push to stay on top, and help our partners do the same. Read more...
  • How to create a compensating control for EOL Windows XP Risk
    Kim Singletary - May 13, 2013
    Support for Windows XP SP3 will officially end April 8, 2014, meaning users have less than a year to choose which operating system to go with next. For many, the motivation to move off XP to a new operating system hasn’t been very compelling – while Windows 7 may be a reasonable option, Vista wasn’t Read more...
  • Tool Talk: Cracking the Code on XtremeRAT
    Jim Walter - October 31, 2012
    Late last week, reports began to surface that the Israeli police (along with other regional law enforcement) were targeted by a malware attack.  The entry vector was described as a phishing campaign sent from Benny Gantz (head of the Israeli Defense Forces).  Initially, details and indicators around the malware were beyond sparse. Aside from the FROM: address, Read more...
  • Get The Most Out Of Your Intel vPro-based PCs With McAfee ePO Deep Command
    Ed Metcalf - September 12, 2012
    McAfee ePO Deep Command is one of the best examples of how McAfee and Intel are working together to develop technology and solutions combining the power of hardware with the flexibility of software.  ePO Deep Command allows IT security administrators to take the features available in Intel’s vPro and deploy them into the enterprise to improve security Read more...
View All
Canada - English