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McAfee® GroupShield™ 7.0 User Guide 8 Getting Started with the User Interface Dashboard Statistics This section shows you the percentage and the number of clean items, detected spam, phish, viruses, PUPs, banned file types/messages and unwanted content. It also shows you the average scan time (in milliseconds) and the total number of email messages scanned. Click Reset to reset the statistics of detected items. From the Graph drop-down menu, select one of these: „ - Select the counters in the Detections section by clicking on the icon of an item. This enables you to view the statistics and graph of the selected counters. „ Spam Summary - View spam statistics and graph. „ Phish Summary - View phish statistics and graph. Click the Display bar graph icon or Display pie chart icon as required, to view the graphical display of detections. You can choose Time Range from the drop-down menu to view these graphs. The options for the time range are: „ Last 24 Hours „ Last 7 Days „ Last 30 Days Versions & updates This section has three tabs: „ Update Information: This tab shows the latest instant when the anti-virus engine and DAT files were successfully updated. It shows how frequently this update was done. It also shows the version of anti-virus engine, DAT files, and anti-spam engine (if you have chosen to install the Anti-Spam for GroupShield). You can view the status of the last update (the Show Status link) and schedule a new updating frequency (the Edit Schedule link). McAfee Security regularly provides updated Virus Definition (DAT) files to detect and clean the latest virus threats. Click Update Now to update the most up-to-date virus protection available. „ Product Information: This tab shows the product name and version, the Service Pack, HotFix information and the condition of the buffer overflow protection. A buffer overflow is an anomalous condition where a process attempts to store data beyond the boundaries of a fixed-length buffer. This results in extra data overwriting the Note adjacent memory locations. Enabling Buffer Overflow Protection prevents this condition. 89

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McAfee
®
GroupShield
7.0 User Guide
Getting Started with the User Interface
Dashboard
8
Statistics
This section shows you the percentage and the number of clean items, detected spam,
phish, viruses, PUPs, banned file types/messages and unwanted content. It also
shows you the average scan time (in milliseconds) and the total number of email
messages scanned.
Click
Reset
to reset the statistics of detected items. From the
Graph
drop-down menu,
select one of these:
<Select Detections>
— Select the counters in the
Detections
section by clicking on the
icon of an item. This enables you to view the statistics and graph of the selected
counters.
Spam Summary
— View spam statistics and graph.
Phish Summary
— View phish statistics and graph.
Click the
Display bar graph
icon
or
Display pie chart
icon
as required, to view the
graphical display of detections. You can choose
Time Range
from the drop-down menu
to view these graphs. The options for the time range are:
Last 24 Hours
Last 7 Days
Last 30 Days
Versions & updates
This section has three tabs:
Update Information
: This tab shows the latest instant when the anti-virus engine and
DAT files were successfully updated. It shows how frequently this update was
done. It also shows the version of anti-virus engine, DAT files, and anti-spam engine
(if you have chosen to install the Anti-Spam for GroupShield). You can view the
status of the last update (the
Show Status
link) and schedule a new updating
frequency (the
Edit Schedule
link).
McAfee Security regularly provides updated Virus Definition (DAT) files to detect
and clean the latest virus threats. Click
Update Now
to update the most up-to-date
virus protection available.
Product Information
: This tab shows the product name and version, the Service Pack,
HotFix information and the condition of the buffer overflow protection.
Note
A buffer overflow is an anomalous condition where a process attempts to store data
beyond the boundaries of a fixed-length buffer. This results in extra data overwriting the
adjacent memory locations. Enabling
Buffer Overflow Protection
prevents this condition.