NEW VIRUSSCAN 4.5 OFFERS ENTERPRISE PROTECTION, MANAGES NET-CONNECTED PCs.

McAfee Says V4.5 Provides First True Incremental Updating And Content Scanning Anti-virus Solution

Network Associates Inc. has just announced McAfee VirusScan 4.5, the next generation of its flagship virus security software for protecting Internet-connected desktops from increasingly common and damaging computer virus outbreaks. McAfee says the new product combines the market-leading McAfee virus detection and cleaning engine with the industry's only true incremental updating capability for rapid, easy deployment of fixes up to 20 times faster than today's technology allows.

The product also provides faster content scanning and enhanced centralized management of desktop anti-virus software to ensure that new viruses and malicious code threats neither enter nor leave their corporate network, protecting businesses from both costly network downtime and liability from a virus outbreak protects companies from disguised threats. According to research firm Computer Economics, virus outbreaks cost e-businesses and end users more than $12.1 billion worldwide in 1999 alone.

"The Internet and email are critical components of our business model, and we rely heavily on McAfee anti-virus software and services to protect our company's desktops from email-aware viruses and Internet-borne malicious code," says Stephen Turmo, PC LAN analyst at Old Republic Title. "McAfee VirusScan 4.5 will allow us to respond even quicker to potential virus outbreaks, and will enhance our centralized management of virus policies and protection for all of our enterprise desktops."

VirusScan 4.5 is the latest version of Network Associates' virus security software, protecting enterprise desktops where large amounts of vital corporate information are kept. Through content scanning, the software protects against Internet-borne viruses and malicious code found in email, Internet downloads and ActiveX, Java and Java Script Applets, and viruses such as the recently discovered BubbleBoy. The McAfee VirusScan 4.5 product is the industry's only anti-virus solution that enables companies to incrementally update all desktop virus protection easily and quickly to prevent against virus outbreaks, McAfee says. The product can deliver true incremental updates to a company's entire enterprise up to 20 times faster than previous distribution methods due to a reduced signature file size of only 100 KB, which provides only the needed updates and results in saved network bandwidth.

"Being able to quickly respond to a virus outbreak by automatically pushing out virus cures is critical for e-businesses to combat today's fast-spreading email viruses such as Melissa, ExploreZip and BubbleBoy," says Sal Viveros, director of McAfee Total Virus Defense at Network Associates. "The new McAfee VirusScan has been enhanced to allow organizations to easily manage desktop virus security for their entire enterprise, and is now integrated with important new management capabilities that proactively protect against virus attacks."