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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 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 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
Microsoft operating systems:
- Windows NT 4 - Service Pack 6a only
- Windows 2000 - Service Pack 4 only
- Windows XP 32-bit and x64 Edition (with current and previous Service pack)
- Windows Server 2003 32-bit and x64 Editions (with current and previous Service pack)
- Windows Vista 32-bit and x64 Editions (with current and previous Service pack)
- Windows 7 32-bit and x64 Editions
- Windows Server 2008 32-bit and x64 Editions (with current and previous Service pack)
Memory requirements for the Engine:
- At least 64 MB of free hard disk space.
- At least 128 MB of free hard disk space reserved for temporary files.
For Windows Vista & Server 2008
- At least 512 MB of RAM. 1024 MB (recommended).
For all other Windows platforms
- At least 128 MB of RAM. 256 MB (recommended).
Supported platforms for VirusScan Command Line for UNIX
The following requirements are mandatory for installing this software on any supported platforms:
- Current version of the UNIX operating system that you require must be installed and running properly before you install the software
- Root account permissions to install the software and perform an on-demand scan of your file system.
Disk space and Memory:
- At least 64 MB of free hard disk space
- At least 128 MB of free hard disk space reserved for temporary files
- At least 128 MB of RAM. 256 MB (recommended)
UNIX operating systems:
- IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1 for RS6000 with the latest Maintenance Packages installed.
- FreeBSD 6.1 --> 7.2 for Intel (x86) 32-bit with legacy compatibility library libc.so.3 installed.
- Hewlett-Packard HP-UX 11.0, 11i, 11iv2, and 11iv3 for PA-RISC with the latest Standard HP-UX patch bundles installed.
- Linux for Intel 32-bit distributions with libstdc++.so.5.0.5 or later installed
- Linux for Intel 64-bit distributions shipping with version 2.6 production kernel, with libstdc++.so.6 installed.
- Sun Microsystems Solaris for SPARC versions 8, 9 and 10 (32 and 64-bit) with the latest Solaris OS recommended cluster installed.
- Sun Microsystems Solaris for X86 versions version 10 (32 and 64-bit) with the latest Solaris OS recommended cluster installed.
