User manual MCAFEE VIRUSSCAN FOR UNIX DATASHEET

[. . . ] Data Sheet McAfee System Protection Solutions McAfee Command Line Scanners and VirusScan for UNIX When Only a Command Line Scanner Will Do McAfee VirusScan is trusted by millions of enterprises to provide effective defense from virus attacks. In most cases, of course, this means continuous background protection ® under various versions of Microsoft® Windows. However, there are occasions when it's useful to have a command line scanner at your disposal. [. . . ] SCANPM. EXE will run in a Windows environment if it's launched explicitly from the command line. However, this isn't recommended since it is not optimized for this environment. Generic Detection and Cleaning Generic detection involves using a single virus definition to detect and clean many variants of the same virus family. This is especially useful today when a successful threat is often followed by a host of variants. Of course, all threats must be detected, but it is much less efficient to build individual signatures for each one as they appear. Piecemeal detection isn't just less efficient--it also means that a new variant has the opportunity to spread before the scanner is able to detect it. McAfee's generic detection capability, developed over several years, has brought enormous benefits to McAfee customers, who have been protected--in advance--from threats such as Anna Kournikova, Homepage, Badtrans. b, Fbound. c, Klez. h, W32/Frethem, Bugbear. b, Sobig. e, W32/Mimail, Lovsan, and many others. Scanning UNIX File Systems McAfee provides command line scanners for a wide range of UNIX platforms--AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux v2. x kernels, SCO UNIX, and Solaris (SPARC). Our UNIX scanners provide more than just search-and-destroy scanning capability for the growing number of native UNIX viruses. They scan for all viruses that may be stored on any UNIX systems operating as file stores for Windows desktops across your enterprise. Comprehensive Scanning for Today's Threats There are now in excess of 85, 000 threats, and more than 275 new threats appear each month. Alongside "traditional" virus threats, there are now e-mail worms, Internet worms, DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, backdoor and remote access Trojans, and zombies. Many of these threats combine multiple-attack mechanisms to maximize their chances of spreading quickly through corporate networks worldwide. Blended threats, in particular, have had a marked effect, combining the use of system exploits, formerly associated with hacking activities, with the spreading capabilities of viruses and worms. An increasing number of The Hidden Threat When a file is compressed or archived, the original bytes of the file are rearranged as part of the space-saving process. If the file is infected, the bytes belonging to the virus are also rearranged, and the characteristic string that an anti-virus scanner looks for may no longer exist. So there could be a hidden threat lurking within any compressed, archived, or www. mcafeesecurity. com Data Sheet McAfee Command Line Scanners and VirusScan for UNIX Page 2 packed file. McAfee command line scanners are able to drill down into multiple layers of compression to seek out the hidden threat within. The threat isn't confined just to common archive utilities like WinZip. [. . . ] McAfee® Research, a world leader in information systems and security, continues to spearhead innovation in the development and refinement of all our technologies. Network Associates, McAfee, VirusScan, and PrimeSupport are registered trademarks or trademarks of Network Associates, Inc. All other registered and unregistered trademarks herein are the sole property of their respective owners. [. . . ]