McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images

Purpose-built security for virtual environments

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Overview

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images — the first dedicated security solution for virtual machines (VMs) — protects your virtual environment and corporate network by automatically scanning, cleaning, and updating VMs before they go online.

VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images offers:

An optimized solution — Developed specifically to work with all major virtualization environments, including Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware.

Scalable security — Provides on-demand protection for an unlimited number of VMs.

Comprehensive, cost-effective protection — Reduces IT overhead with integrated protection for pre-production (testing and development) and production (disaster recovery) virtual environments.

Features & Benefits

Secure your VMs and protect your enterprise

Automatically scan, clean, and update virtual machines (VMs) while they’re offline to eliminate the risk of dormant VMs threatening your corporate network.

Save money with automatic updates

Count on automatic, real-time, anti-malware updates via Artemis Technology from McAfee Labs to maintain the latest threat protection without bringing VMs online, thus allowing your IT staff to focus on other issues.

Save time with unified security management

Minimize IT efforts and reduce operating costs with common security management via the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform, for both physical and virtual environments.

Save trouble with a single solution

Reduce IT migration issues with one security solution that supports all top virtualization vendors, including Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware.

Facilitate real-time disaster recovery

Secure offline VMs at secondary sites.

Support regulatory compliance

Scan and update offline virtual images periodically to enable archiving for longer periods.

System Requirements

These are minimum system requirements. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

Supported Operating Systems

  • Microsoft Windows Vista base or higher (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or higher (no support for XP 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit; no support for Server Cores)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or higher: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (no support for Server 2003 64-bit)

Supported VMware Images

  • Supports images using the Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK) and Open Virtualization Format (OVF) specification
  • Microsoft Windows 7, all versions
  • Microsoft Windows Vista base or higher (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows XP with SP1 or higher (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 with SP4
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)

Supported Microsoft Virtual PC Images

  • Supports images using the Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk Image Format specification
  • Microsoft Windows Vista base or higher (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows XP with SP1 or higher (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 with SP4
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or higher: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)

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  • The Four Phases of Every Attack
    Dan Wolff - March 21, 2012
    Let’s face it, threats have gotten much more complex; like complex mechanisms they use multiple, consecutive methods to attack. At McAfee, our research teams continually analyze the threat landscape, and define threats in terms of their attack mechanisms, which consistently fall into four categories. First malware needs a way to come in contact with unsuspecting Read more...
  • RDP+RCE=Bad News (MS12-020)
    Jim Walter - March 14, 2012
    See March 15 and 16 updates at the end of this blog. —————————————————-   The March Security Bulletin release from Microsoft was relatively light in volume. Out of the six bulletins released, only one was rated as Critical. And for good reason. MS12-020 includes CVE-2012-0002. This flaw is specific to the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) present on Read more...
  • An Update on DNSChanger and Rogue DNS Servers
    Jim Walter - March 06, 2012
    In late 2011, the FBI released documents and data focusing on “Operation Ghost Click.” This malicious operation, leveraging a variety of DNSChanger-type malware, was defined by the FBI as an “international cyber ring that infected millions of computers.” Associated malware samples and events can be traced back several years, and multiple platforms were targeted. To this day many remain Read more...
  • Another Overview of Exploit Packs
    Francois Paget - February 24, 2012
    Recently I blogged about some exploit packs. In that post I showed a table that had 10 common malware kits. I listed the vulnerabilities used, referenced by their Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE) names. There were 45 vulnerabilities in the table. From the data, this idea was taken up by Mila Parkour via her Contagio Read more...
  • McAfee Q4 Threats Report Shows Malware Surpassed 75 Million Samples in 2011
    David Marcus - February 21, 2012
    Today we released our Fourth Quarter 2011 Threat Report, revealing that malware surpassed the our estimate of 75 million unique malware samples last year. Although the release of new malware slowed a bit in Q4, mobile malware continued to increase and recorded its busiest year to date. Malware The overall growth of PC-based malware actually Read more...