An Antivirus Solution is only the first step to protecting your organisation, and is considered by many to be the bare minimum.

Firewalls and other protection technology may have been adequate just a few years ago, but they simply aren’t enough as new and unknown threats emerge to target your IT infrastructure.

Now, a protection strategy needs to cover all entry points in your network, and one of the most important places to protect are your desktops and workstations.

With the increasing use of MP3 players like iPods, USB sticks to share data as well as cameras, portable hard disks and other USB devices, viruses can easily be spread by simply plugging in a compromised USB device.

The next-generation anti-virus technology of McAfee® VirusScan® Enterprise 8.5i ensures the availability and security of desktop and server systems and applications by proactively stopping and removing malicious software.

As soon as a file is accessed, or read into memory, be it on a USB drive, network drive or on the computer's own hard drive, VirusScan Enterprise scans the file and compares the data with it's known database of infections.  At the same time, VirusScan Enterprise analyses it's behaviour and decides if it thinks it is a new virus using it's Bloodhound Heuristic Scanning Technology.  This technology protects in the event of a new virus or piece of malicious code before the DAT files are released to detect the new variant.

As the McAfee products not only detect existing and new viruse, they also prevent them from spreading, so the "Window of Vulnerability" is reduced to almost zero.......this is one of the many reasons that we recommend McAfee products as part of a complete Security package

VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i and 8.5i also features Access Protection, combining technology from McAfee's Host Intrusion Prevention (HIPS) solution and it's award winning Desktop Firewall, it is one of the few antivirus packages on the market today that proactive block mass-mailing worms who have their own SMTP engine.

This is achieved by only allowing specific named processes to send traffic out over port 25 (SMTP Port).  This immediately stops network spread of any new malicious code through email.

As an additional benefit, the McAfee AntiSpyware Enterprise module neatly plugs in to VirusScan Enterprise eliminating the need to have two products to fulfill one roll.  All antiviral and antispyware scanning is completed with the one engine eliminating the need for dual scans and reducing precious bandwidth.

Not only is McAfee VirusScan Enterprise easy to use, self-updating and self protecting,  it installs easily to clean, quarantine, or delete malicious threats. All control can be done at the user level, group level or enterprise level from within ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO).