VirusScan for Macintosh

Effective, flexible and convenient desktop protection!

Each month your Macintosh must defend itself against the many viruses which damage both your data and productivity. These viruses are unintentionally received through disks, bulletin boards, E-mail, the internet and networks. Why have millions chosen McAfee VirusScan for their security? Virus detection, removal and service.

Consistent virus detection and removal requires a sizable staff of skilled and experienced virus researchers, engineers and support teams. McAfee is constantly expanding its capabilities; staffing expert virus researchers, streamlining support mechanisms and designing groundbreaking virus extrapolation tools. This customer-driven effort delivers significant updates and among the best reviews in the industry. VirusScan for the Macintosh detects all of the most popular Macintosh viruses.

McAfee is dedicated to strengthening our customer's security. Purchase VirusScan today and put this dedication to work for you.

World's Best Virus Detection

• Consistently detects over 99% of the more than 35 known Macintosh specific viruses and their variants maintained by independent testing labs. Detects Macro viruses.
• Detects All categories of Macintosh Virus threats; including conventional, hypercard stack, Word.Macro, and Trojans.
• Award-winning, proprietary scanning technology efficiently pinpoints known and generic Macintosh virus types.
• World Proven - McAfee's anti-virus solutions are licensed by more than 40,000 corporations and organizations.

Comprehensive Detection

• Completely unobtrusive background protection and automated scanning.
• Automatically captures viruses as programs are executed for immediate virus elimination.
• Automatically scans on disk insertion, file modification, startup, & shutdown .
• Quickly scans all system areas to provide extensive security including local and network drives, CD-ROMS, floppies and any mounted storage devices.
• Accurately cleans virus infections back to their virus-free state.
• Multiple alerting options, including visual & audio alarms, event log, and launching Apple scripts or 3rd party applications if a virus is found.
• Discovers viruses within driver-level compressed files such as StuffIt and Compact Pro.

Convenient to Use

• New Interface elegantly provides intuitive point and click access to all features
• New Configuration Wizard automatically configures advanced, customized protection
• Drag and drop objects onto VirusScan desktop icon to trigger immediate scans
• Optimal scanning mode provides high performance and security.
• Streamlined installation eliminates viruses before installing and
• Flexible scanning options, including comprehensive immediate and scheduled scanning to cover a broad range of environment requirements.
• Informative summary report provides a detailed audit of all scanning and infection results.
• Automatically updates itself when you double-click on a new McAfee release

Peer Administration

• Task Exporting allows peer administrators to send password-protected configurations, immediate scans, scheduled scans, and updated virus-definition-files as e-mail attachments. Users simply double-click and are automatically updated.
• Open system administrable; works with your preferred distribution and management tools; very scaleable.
• Events are logged to a local or remote log file, for easy centralization of information.

Thoroughly tested for system compatibility and unobtrusive operation including network implementation.

Features:

• Scans all system areas to provide extensive security including local and network volumes, floppies, CD-ROM's, ZIPdrives, folders, files, and compressed files.
• Continuously monitors file and disk access in real-time.
• Prevents viruses from entering into or activating within your system.
• Instantly execute pre-defined scan configurations within the Task Manager.
• Accurately cleans virus infections from files, Word Documents, and memory back to their virus-free state.
• Pre-defined actions on detection including alerting, logging, repairing, moving to Trash and/or launching a script or 3rd party application for unattended operation.

Virus Library provides detailed information on how to deal with viruses.

McAfee's AV solutions provide users with Multi-layered protection, through such shared features as the Hunter Engine for advanced detection, the Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team (AVERT), Enterprise SecureCast electronic updating, and the McAfee Security Command Center for enterprise manageability.

System Requirements:

All Macintosh Computers

• Macintosh System 7.0 or higher
• Memory: 700KB

Storage: 2.5 MB