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McAfee Active Virus Defense
Virus protection across all network tiers
McAfee® Active Virus Defense protects you against today’s constantly evolving security threats. It covers desktop, Internet gateway, e-mail servers, and file servers with proven anti-virus protection. It also supports centralized policy management and reporting through McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator®.
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Benefits and Features
Benefits:
- Broad protection
Active Virus Defense protects you against all types of viruses and malicious code, including new and unknown threats - Cohesive integrated solution
Active Virus Defense’s tools combine to give you seamless operation in a coordinated, easy-to-manage solution - Complete system protection
You get comprehensive protection for your desktops, file servers, e-mail servers, and Internet gateway - Single console management
Used with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, Active Virus Defense provides you a complete, single-console, security management solution, including detailed graphical reporting - Updates itself automatically
Active Virus Defense automatically keeps you current with the latest security updates, so that your IT staff does have have to spend their valuable time on manual processes
Features:
- Proven anti-virus technology
McAfee anti-virus virus technology blocks a wide range of virus and malicious code threat; it uses advanced heuristics as well as generic detection so you are protected against new viruses and other threats - Centralized management
Active Virus Defense and ePolicy Orchestrator are integrated for coordinated policy management, deployment, and detailed graphical reporting from one console; ePolicy Orchestrator also helps you enforce virus protection compliance - Desktop and file server protection
McAfee® VirusScan® protects your desktops and file servers against viruses and other threats; it guards your system against exploits that target vulnerabilities in Microsoft® applications and OS services - Internet gateway protection
By stopping them at the Internet gateway, McAfee® WebShield® keeps viruses and other Web-based threats out of your network; using integrated content filtering, it also prevents offensive or inappropriate content from reaching your users - E-mail server protection
Viruses may also enter your system through an e-mail server; McAfee® GroupShield® specifically protects this layer of your network with anti-virus support for Lotus® Domino® and Microsoft Exchange servers - Netware file server protection
McAfee® NetShield® protects your NetWare® file servers; using real-time scanning, it detects and cleans viruses and other threats; NetShield will not rescan clean files unless they have been modified, thereby improving performance and efficiency - Automatic updating
Forget about manual updating; Active Virus Defense automatically pulls the latest updates, keeping all your systems current and protected
Description:
McAfee Active Virus Defense is a suite of products that protects your desktops, Internet gateways, e-mail servers, and file servers from all types of viruses.
Used in conjunction with McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator®, Active Virus Defense provides you with single-console management and reporting. McAfee® VirusScan® Enterprise protects your desktops and file servers. McAfee® WebShield® keeps viruses out of your Internet gateway. McAfee® GroupShield® covers your mail servers. And, McAfee® NetShield® protects your Netware file servers.
Our proven anti-virus technology blends heuristics and generic information to identify both known and unknown viruses. Updates are critical to effective virus protection and Active Virus Defense automatically downloads the latest virus-pattern data for continuous, up-to-date protection.
System Requirements:
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO)
Hardware and Network Requirements
Free disk space – 1GB recommended
Memory – 256MB RAM
Processor – Intel Pentium II-class or higher; 400MHz or higher
Monitor – 1024x768; 256-color, VGA monitor
NIC – Network interface card that supports TCP/IP
File System – NT file system (NTFS)
IP Address – McAfee recommends using static IP addresses for ePO 3.5 servers
Software Requirements
Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server with Service Pack 1, 2, 3, or 4
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise
Windows Server 2003 Standard/Web
Browser – Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
Domain Controllers – The server must have a trust relationship with the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) on the network
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise
Workstation Requirements
Minimum 166MHz Pentium or Celeron processor
32MB of RAM
Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6 or greater
Windows XP Home and Professional SP1
Windows 2000 Professional SP3 or later
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher
Software Requirements
Minimum 166MHz Pentium or Celeron processor
32MB of RAM
Minimum 38MB of free disk space
Windows NT 4.0 Server, SP 6 or greater; Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Server, SP6 or greater
Windows 2000 Server SP1 or greater
Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1 or greater
Windows Server 2003: Standard, Enterprise or Web Edition
Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS)
Other supported platforms: XP Tablet PC, Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 & XP Support; EMC Celerra File Server Support
Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 5.0 or higher
McAfee WebShield SMPT
System Requirements
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003
64 MB (Windows NT) 128 (Windows 2000)
Minimum 9 MB install 500 MB free disk space
McAfee GroupShield for Mail Server
Minimum Requirements for installing on MS Exchange 2003
Intel Pentium or compatible 133 MHz processor
512 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended)
740 MB of free disk space
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, with SP4
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server, with SP4
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition/Enterprise Edition (32-bit)
Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
Minimum Requirements for installing on MS Exchange 2003
Intel Pentium or compatible 133 MHz processor
128 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended)
740 MB of free disk space
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, with SP4
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, with SP3
Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
McAfee NetShield for Netware
System Requirements
NetWare 5.1, Support Pack 3 or higher, NetWare 6.0, Netware 6.5
4MB of free disk space
4MB of RAM
