McAfee VirusScan Enterprise Version 8.0i

This version of VirusScan Enterprise provides several new features that help to prevent and more effectively detect intrusions:

- Product Version Number (The new version is 8.0i)

The product version number has changed from 7.1 to 8.0 to reflect the major changes within the product since the last release. See the following "New Features" and Changed Features" for more information.

The "i" has been added to represent that McAfee VirusScan Enterprise is the first Anti-virus product in the world that contains proactive Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) protection capabilities. These IPS capabilities are provided in the Buffer Overflow Protection feature which comes from McAfee Entercept, our host intrusion prevention security product.

- Access Protection.

Use this feature to prevent intrusions by restricting access to ports, files, shares, and folders.

You can block ports by creating rules to specify which ports to block and whether to restrict access to inbound or outbound processes. You can also exclude processes from the rule if you want a specific process, or list of processes, to be allowed access to the otherwise blocked port. When you block a port, both TCP and UDP accesses are blocked.

You can restrict access to shares by making them read-only or blocking read and write access to all shares.

You can block files and folders by creating rules that specify which processes to block from the files or folders you define, which file actions to prevent, and what action to take when an attempt is made to access a blocked item.

These Access Protection features can be very effective in preventing intrusions. In the event of an outbreak, the administrator can block access to the infected areas until a DAT is released.

NOTE:
If you block a port that is used by the ePolicy Orchestrator agent or the Entercept agent, the agent's processes are trusted by the filter and are allowed to communicate with the blocked port. All other traffic not related to these agent processes will be blocked.

This version of VirusScan Enterprise provides some sample port blocking rules and some sample file and folder blocking rules. With a default installation, some of these rules are in warning mode and others are in blocking mode.

Download URL: McAfee Virus Scan 8.0i