McAfee MAP-3300-SWG Product Guide - Page 105

Anti-virus features, Email, Email Policies, Scanning Policies [Anti-Virus], Web Policies

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Overview of Email features Email Policies Anti-virus features The appliance's anti-virus software provides many ways to protect your network and users. Email | Email Policies | Scanning Policies [Anti-Virus] Web | Web Policies | Scanning Policies [Anti-Virus] The anti-virus software: • Detects and cleans viruses. • Protects your network from potentially unwanted programs (PUPs). The appliance can be configured to: • Enable or disable detection of potentially unwanted programs. • Detect specific types of potentially unwanted programs, such as mass mailers and Trojan horses. • Detect named malware. • Take specific actions when malware is detected. • Protects your network from named packers. You can add and remove packer names from the list of packers that will be detected. Packers compress files and can effectively disguise executable programs. They can also compress Trojan horses and make them harder to detect. The appliance can be configured to: • Detect named packers. • Exclude named packers from detection. • Take specific actions when a packer is detected. • Protects your network from PUPs. A cautious user might want to be informed of PUPs, and might want to remove them. McAfee® anti-spyware software detects and, with your permission, removes potentially unwanted programs. Some purchased or intentionally downloaded programs act as hosts for other potentially unwanted programs. Removing these potentially unwanted programs may prevent their hosts from working. Review the license agreement for these host programs for further details. McAfee does not encourage nor condone breaking any license agreements. Read the details of license agreements and privacy policies carefully before downloading or installing any software. • Automatically scans within compressed files. • Automatically decompresses and scans files compressed in the packages that include PKZip, LHA, and ARJ. • Detects macro viruses. • Detects polymorphic viruses. • Detects new viruses in executable files and OLE compound documents, using a technique called heuristic analysis. • Upgrades easily to new anti-virus technology. McAfee Email and Web Security Appliances 5.6.0 Product Guide 105

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Anti-virus features
The appliance's anti-virus software provides many ways to protect your network and users.
Email
|
Email Policies
|
Scanning Policies [Anti-Virus]
Web
|
Web Policies
|
Scanning Policies [Anti-Virus]
The anti-virus software:
Detects and cleans viruses.
Protects your network from potentially unwanted programs (PUPs). The appliance can be
configured to:
Enable or disable detection of potentially unwanted programs.
Detect specific types of potentially unwanted programs, such as mass mailers and Trojan horses.
Detect named malware.
Take specific actions when malware is detected.
Protects your network from named
packers
. You can add and remove packer names from the list of
packers that will be detected.
Packers compress files and can effectively disguise executable programs. They can also compress
Trojan horses and make them harder to detect. The appliance can be configured to:
Detect named packers.
Exclude named packers from detection.
Take specific actions when a packer is detected.
Protects your network from PUPs. A cautious user might want to be informed of PUPs, and might
want to remove them.
McAfee
®
anti-spyware software detects and, with your permission,
removes potentially unwanted programs. Some purchased or
intentionally downloaded programs act as hosts for other potentially
unwanted programs. Removing these potentially unwanted programs
may prevent their hosts from working. Review the license agreement for
these host programs for further details. McAfee does not encourage nor
condone breaking any license agreements. Read the details of license
agreements and privacy policies carefully before downloading or
installing any software.
Automatically scans within compressed files.
Automatically decompresses and scans files compressed in the packages that include PKZip, LHA,
and ARJ.
Detects macro viruses.
Detects polymorphic viruses.
Detects new viruses in executable files and OLE compound documents, using a technique called
heuristic analysis.
Upgrades easily to new anti-virus technology.
Overview of Email features
Email Policies
McAfee Email and Web Security Appliances 5.6.0 Product Guide
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