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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.
Low impact on performance — New for 2011, VirusScan Enterprise has been redesigned for performance, from startup to on-demand and on-access scanning. Independent tests show industry-leading performance of two to four times faster than the competition.
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
California State University, Chico
California State University, Chico, remediates system vulnerabilities and mitigates risk with McAfee Vulnerability Manager.
Highlights
- Increased risk visibility at department and campus levels, enabling snapshot of security status at any time
- Accelerated time to remediation by providing clear remediation steps for systems administrators
- Reduced time spent scheduling vulnerability scans, and preparing and analyzing reports
- Improved and accelerated decision making by providing user-friendly metrics, graphical reports, and trend analysis
- Improved overall security risk posture
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
Liberty Behavioral Management
McAfee security risk management delivers comprehensive, integrated protection to Liberty Behavioral Management.
Highlights
- Increased visibility of overall and site-by-site security posture
- Protected IT investment by supporting existing McAfee, Microsoft, and Cisco products
- Integrated with management tools to minimize deployment and maintenance expenses
- Consolidated administration points to streamline operations
- Provided centralized, automated reporting to ease audit processes
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
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
Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School
Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School protects high-risk users with McAfee.
Highlights
- Provided proactive security for greater peace of mind
- Delivered strong threat protection at the gateway for SMTP, HTTP, POP3, and FTP
- Provided a high level of spam protection with very few false negatives
News / Events
News
- 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
- Only A Few Days Left
MFEChannelChief - November 18, 2011
As I write this, it is one week from Thanksgiving, here in the United States. This is our kick-off to the holiday season, which got me thinking about our year-end and the realization that while there may be 36 shopping days till Christmas there are far fewer selling days before we reach our Dec. 28, Read more... - McAfee Labs Releases “Fake Alert” Stinger
David Marcus - July 11, 2011
McAfee Labs is pleased to announce the availability of our “Fake Alert” Stinger – an improved Stinger tool with aggressive generic content targeted at enhanced detection and remediation of fake alert based threats. In our efforts to provide the best of protection for our customers against rogue security products or fake alert type malware – Read more... - The New Reality of Stealth Crimeware
David Marcus - June 20, 2011
Anyone who has been in information security recently knows that it has gotten easier for cybercriminals to build stealth crimeware. The malware we deal with on a regular basis grows ever more difficult to find, while high-end targeted attacks such as Stuxnet and other advanced persistent threats (APTs, the abbreviation I hate) are using ever Read more... - Botnets Demystified and Simplified
David Marcus - June 01, 2011
Let’s face it: Most people–even folks in the security industry–have a hard time explaining botnets (robot networks of infected computers) in a way that your Uncle Joe or Aunt Betty can understand. Is it really a big deal? Yes, it is. With the rapid growth in malware and bot infections we’re seeing, it’s important for Read more... - McAfee Labs Assists in Rare Cybercrime Conviction
David Marcus - June 01, 2011
As we have discussed on this blog more than once, convictions for cybercrime activities are a rare thing indeed. Recently, however, a former University of Salford (United Kingdom) student was convicted and given a suspended sentence for stealing online gaming credentials. The University of Salford contacted the police after it received a complaint from a Read more...