Real-time malware protection now available with Virus Scan Enterprise! Enhance your security. McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise 8.7i RC includes a number of features like defect fixes, incorporates the Beta 2 release of the 5300 scanning engine etc. that improve performance of malware scanning and also incorporates functional and usability improvements. To provide customers with real-time detections for malware a new feature “Heuristic network check for suspicious files,” has been included. When this feature is enabled, McAfee VirusScan Enterprise detects a suspicious program and sends a DNS request to the McAfee Avert Labs along with a fingerprint of the suspicious file. The McAfee Avert Labs then communicates the appropriate action back to VirusScan Enterprise 8.7i.
As this optional feature is made available only for on-demand scans and e-mail scanning, all you have to do is select a sensitivity level to enable the feature. This feature is disabled by default. This feature enables to provide protection for classes of malware for which signatures might not be available.
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.7