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McAfee VirusScan Command Line Scanner
Proactive threat detection and cleaning with command-line granularity
McAfee VirusScan® Command Line Scanner offers advanced anti-virus scanning technology in a UNIX-based or Microsoft Windows-based utility. You get comprehensive threat detection and cleaning with command-line granular control.
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Benefits and Features
Benefits:
- Broad threat protection
VirusScan Command Line Scanner blocks all types of viruses and threats, including those hidden in compressed, archived, or packed files - Flexibility and control
VirusScan Command Line Scanner gives you the level of control that is possible only through a command-line scanner; it runs on Microsoft Windows and DOS and a wide range of UNIX platforms - Reliable accurate scans
False positives are problems for many anti-virus applications, but with VirusScan Command Line Scanner, they are few and far between
Features:
- Proven anti-virus technology
VirusScan Command Line Scanner detects a wide range of viruses and malicious code threats, even in compressed files; using advanced heuristics and generic detection, VirusScan even protects against emerging threats - Powerful memory scanning
With VirusScan Command Line, you get on-demand and scheduled in-memory scanning for viruses, worms, and Trojans; you can protect your systems from threats which do not write their code to disk - Command line control
VirusScan Command Line Scanner offers the degree of control available only with a command line utility; it runs on Windows/DOS or a variety of UNIX platforms.
Description:
Some situations simply require the degree of control available only with a command line utility. With McAfee VirusScan Command Line Scanner, you have it. If you need to use a command line scanner alongside a third-party content filter at the Internet gateway, or want to integrate a command line scanner into your own custom business application or process, VirusScan Command Line meets your needs with comprehensive anti-virus protection that runs on Microsoft Windows/DOS and a variety of UNIX platforms.
System Requirements:
Note: The following are minimum system requirements only. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.
Supported platforms for VirusScan Command Line for Windows
- IBM compatible PC with an Intel 80386 processor or equivalent
- MS-DOS 6.22 [SCANPM.EXE]
- Microsoft Windows 9x
- Microsoft Windows NT 4 Service Pack 6a
- Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Packs 3 and 4
- Microsoft Windows XP with current or (current-1) Service Pack—32-bit and x64 editions
- Microsoft Windows 2003 with current or (current-1) Service Pack— 32-bit and x64 editions
Memory Requirements
- Windows 98 /98 SE—Minimum 64 MB, recommended 128 MB
- All others— Minimum 128 MB, recommended 256 MB
Supported platforms for VirusScan Command Line for UNIX
- IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1 for RS6000 with the latest Maintenance Packages installed.
- Linux for Intel 32-bit distributions shipping with 2.4 and 2.6 production kernels, libc6 (glibc), gcc versions 3.2 onwards, and with libstdc++.so.5 installed. 64-bit edition support using x64 CPU's in 32 bit compatibility mode.
- FreeBSD 4.3 to 4.11 for Intel (x86) 32-bit with legacy compatibility library libc.so.3 installed
- Hewlett-Packard HP-UX 11.0 and 11i for PA-RISC with the latest Standard HP-UX patch bundles installed. HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) is not supported
- Sun Microsystems Solarisfor SPARC architecture v8, v9 and v10, with all recommended patches—32-bit and 64-bit
- McAfee recommends that you have root account permissions to install McAfee VirusScan for UNIX software and perform on-demand scan operations on your file system
