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McAfee VirusScan Enterprise

Protect your desktops and file servers from malicious threats

Keeping networks free from a wide range of threats—viruses, worms, rootkits, and Trojans— Key Advantages
is more challenging than ever. Whether your organization is a global enterprise with full-time
security staff or a small or medium-size business, McAfee® VirusScan® Enterprise software Unbeatable malware detection
and removal
ensures that your endpoint servers, desktops, and laptops remain free from malware. Protect your files from viruses,
worms, rootkits, Trojans, and other
threats.
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise software combines techniques. With port blocking, file-name blocking,
antivirus, antispyware, firewall, and intrusion prevention folder/directory lockdown, file share lockdown, and Proactive protection from zero-
technologies to proactively detect and remove malware. infection trace and block, you can stop many new and day attacks
Proactive protection against new
It reduces the cost of managing outbreak responses, unknown malware files cold.
and unknown buffer-overflow
stops zero-day threats, and mitigates the window of exploits that target vulnerabilities in
Proactive Protection from Attacks
vulnerability—the time between the discovery of a Microsoft applications
vulnerability and when fixes are deployed. Plus, with McAfee VirusScan Enterprise software is the industry’s
Leverage McAfee GTI
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise software, you have first anti-malware software to offer patented intrusion
The worldwide presence of McAfee
the flexibility to detect and block malware based on prevention with application-specific buffer-overflow
Labs enables McAfee VirusScan
your business needs: on access, on demand, or on a technology. Now, you can protect your users Enterprise software to leverage
schedule. proactively against buffer-overflow exploits that target protection across file, network, web,
vulnerabilities in Microsoft applications, and you can message, and vulnerability data.
Unbeatable Malware Detection and Cleaning enjoy a more robust, advanced level of endpoint system Manage your security
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise software uses the award- security by integrating your anti-malware technology The McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator ®
winning McAfee scanning engine to detect and clean with intrusion prevention. With McAfee VirusScan (McAfee ePO™) management
malware and protect your files from viruses, worms, Enterprise software, your critical servers and data platform provides centralized
rootkits, Trojans, and other threats. McAfee delivers are kept intact and available for business. For added deployment, policy configuration
and enforcement, and detailed,
comprehensive find-and-fix solutions for today’s threats protection, we lock down McAfee VirusScan Enterprise
customizable reporting.
and uses behavioral analysis to protect against new and software files and services so that malicious threats and
unknown threats. Protect your systems with McAfee attacks don’t disable them.
VirusScan Enterprise software’s advanced behavioral

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Optimized for Fast Performance and Reduced the globe and deliver real-time protection via our Key Advantages (continued)
System Impact suite of security products. McAfee GTI works anytime,
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise software has been anywhere—at home, at work, or on the road.
Manage quarantined files
designed to reduce system impact while scanning for Manage Your Security Easily configure policies to manage
threats. Its persistence-caching technology saves a list and remove quarantined items.
Centralized management and enforcement is the key
of clean, scanned files. This allows the scanner to reduce Enhanced email scanning
to effective and efficient protection. McAfee VirusScan
duplicate file scanning, dramatically improving both Supports users who are using
Enterprise software is deeply integrated into the McAfee Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes
on-access and on-demand scanning. With a reduced
ePO security management platform. The McAfee ePO
memory footprint and faster boot times, users will have
platform provides centralized deployment, policy
lower power requirements than with prior versions. Specifications
configuration and enforcement, and detailed reporting
McAfee Global Threat Intelligence Technology for McAfee VirusScan Enterprise software, as well as
Provides Real-Time Security many other McAfee security products. Workstation
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one of the most comprehensive protection services on Systems
Configure policies to manage quarantined items easily
the market. With visibility across all key threat vectors— Windows 8.1
with the quarantine policy manager. Before an on-access
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file, web, email, and network—and a view into the latest Windows 8
or on-demand scan cleans or deletes a file, it creates a
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vulnerabilities across the IT industry, we correlate real- Windows 7

backup copy of the original file and a registry value in the
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quarantine directory.
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Safeguard Email Programs Protected by McAfee Labs Specifications (continued)

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise software includes the With a global research footprint, McAfee Labs provides
ability to detect and clean viruses in Microsoft Outlook the most comprehensive global threat intelligence in the Server
and Lotus Notes email on client systems. It scans industry. Backed by a portfolio of more than 400 patents ■■
Windows Server 2012 R2
all client email messages that come to the desktop, and a network of millions of sensors spanning the ■■
Windows Server 2012
including HTML text and attachments. Internet, McAfee Labs delivers unparalleled protection ■■
Windows Small Business Server
2011
against both known and emerging threats via a complete
Automatic Updates ■■
Windows Embedded Standard
suite of security products.
Virus security products are only as good as their most 2009

recent updates. With McAfee VirusScan Enterprise Global Professional Services and Technical ■■
Windows Embedded Point of

software, automatic daily updates ensure that your Support Service 1.1 SP3
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Windows Embedded Point of
desktops and file servers are always up to date with the Along with our McAfee Security Innovation Alliance
Service Ready 2009
latest .DAT files and engines. integration partners, we offer a wide variety of professional ■■
Windows Server 2008 R2
services that help you maximize your investment in
Cutting-Edge Endpoint Protection ■■
Windows Server 2008 SP2:
security. We help you assess, plan, deploy, tune, and Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter,
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise software is capable of manage your solutions more effectively and efficiently. Foundation, Web, HPC
integrating with McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange ■■
Windows Small Business Server
to provide innovative endpoint protection. Using Make sure that everything runs smoothly during and
2008 SP2
configurable rules, the McAfee Threat Intelligence after installation with flexible programs from McAfee ■■
Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2
Exchange VirusScan Enterprise Module leverages Technical Support. Our highly skilled and certified ■■
Windows Server 2003 SP2
combined intelligence from the local endpoint context security specialists have a wealth of knowledge and ■■
Windows Small Business Server
(file, process, and environmental attributes) and the resources at their fingertips and can be considered as an 2003 R2 SP2
current available collective threat intelligence (for extension of your IT team. ■■
Windows Small Business Server
example, organizational prevalence, age, reputation, and 2003 SP2
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