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McAfee Total Protection for Small Business—Advanced

McAfee System and Messaging Protection

The last security decision a small business will ever need to make

Our all-in-one security-as-a-service gives small companies the continuous, up-to-date coverage standalone products can’t. Block viruses, spyware, and identity thieves from desktops and servers. Search and surf safely with McAfee SiteAdvisor™ technology. The advanced version scans, filters, and cleans email for spam, phishing, and viruses. Our web-based console simplifies management.

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Benefits and Features

Benefits:

  • Defend all your systems, all the time
    Enjoy uninterrupted protection that’s never obsolete with daily, automated updates through our security-as-service; just install the protection, and the software automatically updates via the internet
  • Comprehensive coverage in a single solution
    Protect desktops, servers and emails; block viruses, spyware, spam, phishing, and hacker attacks; surf the internet safely with SiteAdvisor technology—all with one integrated solution
  • Prevent email threats from compromising your network
    With your own mail domain and server, redirect mail to McAfee to filter email quickly and reliably—no need for extra work or hardware overhead; automatically keep undesirable and potentially damaging messages, spam, phishing scams, and viruses from entering your network
  • Simplify security management
    Centralize installation, configuration, reporting, updates, and group management with a single, web-based console; with our hosted security-as-a-service infrastructure, no need to hire dedicated IT staff or buy additional security management software, hardware, or technical support
  • Easy protection for all users
    Send the customized installation link to users at any location for quick deployment, so that they can get on board and get protected
  • Affordable security and support
    With an annual subscription, you get continuous protection—automatic updates and upgrades, centralized management, and around-the-clock technical support—at one low cost 

Features:

  • Integrated system protection
    Scan and clean desktops and servers automatically for viruses and malware; block known and unknown threats and potentially unwanted programs; guard desktops from hackers and identity thieves; integrated SiteAdvisor technology makes surfing and searching safe
  • Powerful, fully automated, and accurate email filtering
    With your own mail domain and server scan, filter, and quarantine inbound email messages and attachments for dangerous content—spam, phishing scams, inappropriate content, and viruses—before they reach your network; it works with all popular email applications
  • Single centralized management console
    Centralize installation, configuration, reporting, updates and group management for all users—no matter where they are—with web-based McAfee SecurityCenter; we host the infrastructure for policies and reports, so there are no additional hardware or software investments required for centralized management
  • Immediate scanning to defeat viruses and spyware
    Block and defeat viruses, spyware, adware, and other malware threats before they install and compromise your desktops and servers; the advanced version also scans inbound emails before they are delivered to Microsoft Outlook
  • Prevent hackers from attacking desktops
    Safeguard your desktops with integrated firewall protection; block unwanted internet access to or from your computers; keep hackers and identity thieves out of your business
  • Manage and monitor centrally
    Do it all from the web-based SecurityCenter management console, no matter where you are; view infected machines, enable or disable protection per groups; customize virus and spyware protection and new firewall policy controls
  • Free 30-day trial
    Try our comprehensive solutions free for 30 days, so that you can experience the value of McAfee Total Protection for your business—complete with access to the McAfee SecurityCenter to remotely monitor your protection

Description:

Securing, managing, and viewing all your systems from today’s ever-changing threats is a real challenge. For your business to survive and thrive, you need an affordable solution that keeps your protection current all the time and covers all the bases.

If you’re currently juggling multiple standalone products and aren’t quite confident that they’re doing the job, McAfee Total Protection™ for Small Business—Advanced is the answer. This affordable security-as-a- service is the only integrated solution of its kind on the market today. Our all-in-one solution automatically blocks known and as-yet-discovered threats from your desktops and servers—viruses, spyware, and hacker attacks.

Your protection is enhanced with McAfee SiteAdvisor™. Protect your employees from online exploits like phishing scams, spyware, and more without limiting online access. Users have the freedom to surf and search safely.

Plus, you get fast and accurate automated email filtering that weeds out suspicious and inappropriate content, like spam and phishing attacks, before it reaches your network. And like our standard version, McAfee Total Protection for Small Business—Advanced is always up to date, so you never have to spend your time worrying about whether you’re staying on top of emerging threats.

With McAfee Total Protection for Small Business, your management worries are over. Through the web-based McAfee SecurityCenter—our easy-to-use management and reporting console—you can monitor your virus, spyware, and firewall protection, customize security policies, and view remediation actions and infection reports. Remove uninstalled machines from reports, configure your protection to control web browsing protection and new firewall policy controls, or find out how many machines have SiteAdvisor or other protections. Installation is quick and convenient. No matter where your users are physically located, all they have to do is click on a link to initiate the service on their systems.

System Requirements:

McAfee Total Protection for Small Business—Advanced is designed for Microsoft Windows operating systems running on a PC platform.

System Requirements

  • Intel Pentium processor or compatible architecture
  • Internet connection—Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 with SP2 or later
  • RAM requirements—64 MB minimum (256 MB recommended; 512 MB recommended for servers)
  • Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device
  • 256-color VGA monitor or better

Note: The above are general system requirements and may vary depending on the nature of your environment

McAfee Total Protection for Small Business—Advanced is a true email screening service that is compatible with any mail system, including Exchange and Lotus Domino. There is no software or hardware to install at a customer location. However, the following requirements are necessary:

  • Customer must own a unique email domain name
  • And a mail server with a static IP address.

Virus and spyware protection service

  • Client computers:
    • Microsoft Windows Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
    • Microsoft Windows XP Home and Microsoft Windows X Professional (32-bit)
    • Microsoft Vista (32-bit)
    • Microsoft Windows XP (64-bit)
    • Microsoft Vista (64-bit)
  • Servers:
    • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server: Advanced Server or Small Business Server with Service Pack 3 or later
    • Windows 2003 Standard Server: Enterprise Server, Web Edition, Small Business Server

Firewall protection

  • Client computers:
    • Microsoft Windows Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
    • Microsoft Windows XP Home and Microsoft Windows X Professional (32-bit)
    • Microsoft Vista (32-bit)
  • Servers:
    • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server: Advanced Server or Small Business Server with Service Pack 3 or later
    • Windows 2003 Standard Server: Enterprise Server, Web Edition, Small Business Server

Browser protection

  • Client computers:
    • Microsoft Windows Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
    • Microsoft Windows XP Home and Microsoft Windows X Professional (32-bit)
    • Microsoft Vista (32-bit)

Operating system support ending

Support for the following Microsoft Windows operating systems is now ending with Total Protection for Small Business. Client computers running these operating systems will continue to be protected against threats that exist when support ends but will not be protected against new threats that emerge after support ends. To protect these computers against new threats, you must upgrade to a supported operating system. For further details, visit: http://www.mcafee.com/us/small/support/customer_service/end_life.html.

  • Microsoft Windows  95
  • Microsoft Windows  98
  • Microsoft Windows ME
  • Microsoft Windows NT 4.x

McAfee Total Protection for Small Business - Advanced is a true email screening service that is compatible with any mail system, including Exchange and Lotus Domino. There is no software or hardware to install at a customer location. However, the following requirements are necessary:

  • Customer must own a unique email domain name
  • And a mail server with a static IP address.