Program Overview
McAfee is pleased to announce the Release Candidate of the McAfee Anti-Malware Engine version 5500. The 5500 Engine will succeed the current 5400 Anti-Malware Engine.
The McAfee Anti-Malware Engine is a component at the heart of award-winning McAfee endpoint and gateway products that deliver industry-leading malware protection. Using patented technology, it analyzes files and malicious code in real-time to detect and block Trojans, viruses, worms, adware, spyware, riskware, and other threats.
We encourage you to actively participate in this beta program and provide your valuable feedback.
New Features & Enhancements
- Performance enhancements to Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) scanning
- File decomposition support for RedHat Package Manager (.rpm) file format
- New platforms: HP-UX Itanium 11.2 and 11.3
- End Of Life’d platforms: Mac OSX 10.2.8, 10.3.9, Novell Netware & Microsoft Windows NT4
System Requirements
Disk space and memory:
- At least 512 MB of free hard disk space
- At least an additional 512 MB of free hard disk space reserved for temporary files
- At least 512 MB of RAM for scanning operations (1024 MB recommended minimum)
- At least 1024 MB of RAM for updating operations
Engine Downloads
The 5500 Engine Release Candidate (5500.1093) packages can be downloaded from here.
| 5500 Release Candidate packages | Platform |
|---|---|
| Linux | |
| Mac OS X | |
| Microsoft Windows | |
| Microsoft Windows |
Evaluate VirusScan CLS
VirusScan Command Line Scanner 6.0.4 evaluation packages can be downloaded from here.
| VirusScan Command Line Scanner | Platform |
|---|---|
| AIX | |
| FreeBSD 6 | |
| HP Itanium | |
| HPUX | |
| Linux 32-bit | |
| Linux 64-bit | |
| Solaris SPARC | |
| Solaris x86 | |
| Windows |