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Overview
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise combines anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and intrusion prevention technologies to stop and remove malicious software. It also extends coverage to new security risks and reduces the cost of responding to outbreaks with the industry’s lowest impact on system performance.
With VirusScan Enterprise, you get:
Maximum defense against malware — Safeguards your systems and files from viruses, spyware, worms, Trojans, and other security risks. It detects and cleans malware, and allows you to easily configure policies to manage quarantined items.
Proactive protection from attacks — Real-time scanning ensures all your systems, including remote locations, are protected from current and emerging threats. VirusScan Enterprise also guards against buffer-overflow exploits that target vulnerabilities in Microsoft applications.
Easy, centralized management — The McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform is the centralized management console for deploying policies, managing security alerts, and viewing automated reports.
Enhanced security powered by McAfee Global Threat Intelligence — McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) is a comprehensive cloud-based threat intelligence service. Already integrated into McAfee security products, it works in real time, 24 hours a day, to protect customers against cyberthreats across all vectors — file, web, message, and network. McAfee GTI offers the broadest threat data, most robust data correlation, and most complete product integration in the industry. McAfee’s GTI network allows enabled products to evaluate threats on multiple vectors in real time, leading to faster identification of threats and higher capture rates. VirusScan Enterprise uses the McAfee GTI file reputation service to identify suspicious files before they are necessarily identified as carrying malicious payloads.
Features & Benefits
Block multiple threats
Defend your systems against viruses, worms, spyware, bots, Trojans, buffer overflows, and blended attacks. Block a broad range of viruses and malicious code — even those hidden in compressed files — with combined anti-virus, firewall, and intrusion prevention technology. McAfee’s industry-leading security also safeguards against spam, phishing attacks, malicious websites, and other threats that often evade standard anti-virus and URL filtering systems.
Stop malware in real time
Close the protection gap with McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI). GTI offers comprehensive, real-time protection against both known and emerging threats across all key threat vectors — file, web, email, and network. A cloud-based service using reputation-based threat protection in addition to other techniques, McAfee GTI correlates real-world data collected from millions of sensors globally and delivers intelligence via a complete suite of McAfee security products.
Safeguard email programs
Detect and clean viruses in Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes, including HTML text and attachments.
Get high-performance security
Don’t let your anti-malware software slow down end users. VirusScan Enterprise scans faster, uses less memory, requires fewer CPU cycles, and protects users better than any other anti-malware product on the market.
Lessen damage from outbreaks
Limit the risk and impact of an outbreak if one occurs. Close ports, monitor applications and email engines, and block files and directories, even before .DAT files are issued.
Increase security confidence
Defend your desktops, laptops, and file servers against disruptions. Malware and hackers cannot disable McAfee VirusScan Enterprise.
Defend against threats that target Microsoft applications
Guard against buffer-overflow exploits that aim at vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows operating system services, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft SQL Server. It also protects IIS services, WinZip, and Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Office Access, Microsoft Office Visio, Microsoft Windows Media Player, and Microsoft Messenger.
Save money with efficient visibility and management
Control and manage VirusScan Enterprise from one central McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) console, and get detailed enterprise-level reporting quickly and easily.
System Requirements
These are minimum system requirements. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment. 64-bit operating system support is available for some technologies.
- Workstations
- Windows 7
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP Home, Professional, Embedded (WEPOS), Tablet PC
- Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or higher
- Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS)
- Windows XP Embedded (SP2)
- Windows XP Tablet PC Edition (SP2)
- Servers
- Windows 2008 Server, HyperV, Core, Datacenter, Storage Server, Cluster Server, Small Business Server
- Windows 2003 Server, Storage Server, Cluster Server, Datacenter, Small Business Server
- Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, Small Business Server
- VMware ESX, ESXi
- Citrix XenDesktop and XenServer
Demos / Tutorials
Quick Tips for VirusScan Enterprise
For guidance on how to use this McAfee product, watch the Quick Tips video listed above.
Awards / Reviews
McAfee Wins 2010 SC Magazine Awards in Multiple Categories
SAN FRANCISCO, March 05, 2010 - McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) has been recognized with SC Magazine’s 2010 Awards in the following categories: Best Anti-Malware solution and Best Security Solution. The announcement was made yesterday at the SC Awards Gala, held in conjunction with the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco.
McAfee System Security and Vulnerability Management Products Verified as Citrix Ready
SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 17, 2009 - McAfee (NYSE:MFE) today announced that McAfee VirusScan Enterprise, McAfee Anti-spyware Enterprise, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), and McAfee Vulnerability Manager have been verified as Citrix Ready. The Citrix Ready program identifies trusted, third-party solutions that add the greatest value in the Citrix Delivery Center infrastructure.
Customer Stories
CSS Corp
CSS Corp has deployed McAfee Network Security Platform sensors protecting network traffic at its gateways globally.
Highlights
- Provided centralized management, control, and reporting on overall functioning of security environment
- Ensured compliance with ISO277001 and PCI DSS
- Contributed to network availability to meet SLAs
- Maintained comprehensive protection from external and internal security threats
CSTISA
CSTISA uses McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) software as a primary sales tool to sell McAfee Endpoint Protection solutions.
Highlights
- Supports year-over-year scalability and business continuity
- Helps build trust as an IT security advisor to customers
- Provides expert service to customers, from sales and installation through ongoing support
- Allows expansion into new markets, such as cloud security services
Freehills
Highlights
- Freehills uses McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual Environments (MOVE) AntiVirus to provide agile, service-oriented security, optimized specifically for virtualized environments.
Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG)
Cancer research group stays on task with McAfee.
Highlights
- Blocked inbound and outbound spam emails, phishing expeditions, and web-borne malware
- Provided always-on and constantly updated automatic protection
- Assured business continuity and improved email availability
- Offered customization options for diverse user groups and computing environments
- Saved time, so limited IT resources could focus on development rather than support
Mairie de Saint Nazaire
McAfee simplifies security management for French city’s local government.
Highlights
- Simplified security management with single, integrated central console
- Deployed quickly and easily
- Freed up time to focus on nonsecurity issues
- Reduced spam significantly
Major Healthcare System
The healthcare system uses McAfee solutions to gain compliance with HIPAA, PCI, DSS, and FTC regulations.
Highlights
- Optimize mobility management of corporate data
- Protect corporate data from the data center to the mobile device
- Set mobile policies that work while providing flexibility to users
- Provide central dashboard for controlling entire security environment
Manpower
Manpower saves time and improves user service with McAfee.
Highlights
- Upgraded smoothly to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 4.0 with only two hours of preparation
- Reduced time spent on new deployments
- Allowed support team to communicate security issues more efficiently, lowering overhead and increasing productivity
Manteca Unified School District
Manteca Unified School District protects students with McAfee solutions.
Highlights
- Increased bandwidth by 20% after eliminating IM and file sharing
- Reduced virus outbreaks to zero per year, compared with one or more in prior years
- Enabled systems administrators to quickly learn new solutions through centralized management capabilities of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform
MidWestOne Financial Group
McAfee Firewall Enterprise, McAfee Web Gateway, and McAfee Email Gateway provide the foundation for MidWestOne’s Internet security strategy.
Highlights
- Comprehensive inbound threat protection and outbound data loss prevention for 250 email users
- Strong antivirus protection for 550 desktops and laptops
- Centrally managed security infrastructure through “single pane of glass” with McAfee ePO software
- Significantly reduces helpdesk calls for spyware infections by half
- Creates an improved standing with auditors and regulators
Riverside Healthcare
Riverside Healthcare protects more than 1,950 endpoints including mobile devices with McAfee software.
Highlights
- Optimize mobility management of corporate data
- Protect corporate data from the data center to the mobile device
- Set mobile policies that work while providing flexibility to users
Scottrade
Scottrade partners with McAfee to secure customer data.
Highlights
- Eliminated network vulnerabilities and protected customer information
- Improved monitoring and control of workstations and servers via a single management console
- Streamlined and accelerated security management and vulnerability assessment
- Simplified deployment, patches, and upgrades
- Helped Scottrade garner multiple awards for customer satisfaction and IT excellence
Smith College
Smith College strengthens Internet and email security with McAfee.
Highlights
- Reduced email volume by 90%, by effectively blocking spam
- Protected 5,000 student, faculty, and staff workstations from Internet viruses
- Effectively eliminated management overhead, saving system administrators approximately three hours a day
TeliaSonera AB
A leading telecommunications group in the Nordic and Baltic regions strengthens anti-virus security with McAfee.
Highlights
- Protected 23,000 endpoints against viruses
- Enforced blacklisting of potentially malicious applications
- Delivered powerful functionality, ease of use, and simplified administration
- Helped secure the patch update process
Temecula Valley Unified School District
McAfee Solves Rampant Spyware Problem for Temecula Schools.
Highlights
- Eliminated spyware and reduced time spent on spyware to zero
- Enhanced network performance by reclaiming valuable bandwidth
- Improved distribution of patches and upgrades
University of Utah Health Sciences Center (UUHSC)
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 4.0 minimizes time spent on threat protection at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center.
Highlights
- Migrated to ePO 4.0 in only 15 minutes
- Facilitated faster decision making for IT with easy-to-use, customizable reporting
- Used actionable reporting and task automation to save IT 16 hours/week — time previously spent fixing systems
- Optimized user-friendly dashboards to ease IT administration and provide an at-a-glance overview for the University of Utah security team
- Detected and/or blocked nearly 21 million potential threats in a three-month period
WNS Limited
WNS deployed McAfee Endpoint Encryption on all of its 1,500 laptops worldwide and McAfee Vulnerability Manager at each of its service sites.
Highlights
- Dramatically reduced time spent managing security
- Centralized security management across multiple global sites
- Improved administrative control and visibility across the extended enterprise
Wyeth
McAfee protects Wyeth’s global IT environment from pervasive threats.
Highlights
- Provided comprehensive spyware and anti-virus protection to more than 54,000 desktops
- Simplified IT and security management with easy-to-create scheduled and ad hoc reports
- Thwarted buffer-overflow attacks
News / Events
News
- McAfee Leads in Protection Against Advanced Threats
February 27, 2013Topics : Endpoint Protection
- Iomega and McAfee Collaborate to Offer Enterprise Security on Iomega’s Top of the Line StorCenter PX Series Network Storage Products
May 17, 2012Topics : Endpoint Protection
- McAfee Leads in Enterprise Endpoint Protection and Performance; Unifies Customer Approach to Emerging Security Threats
May 2, 2011Topics : Endpoint Protection, Security-as-a-Service (SaaS)
- McAfee Wins 2010 SC Magazine Awards in Multiple Categories
March 5, 2010Topics : Email & Web Security, Endpoint Protection, Security Management
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Blogs
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Lang Tibbils - May 17, 2013
Read the news on any given day and you’ll see a constant barrage of headlines detailing banks, gaming companies, and even news organizations being hacked by cyber criminals. These criminals can steal credentials, personal employee or customer information, and even intellectual property. Customers want to make news headlines – but not as the victim of Read more... - McAfee vs. Symantec: Who came out on Top?
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Kim Singletary - May 13, 2013
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