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Welcome to McAfee® Enterprise News, our monthly customer newsletter. Our goal is to keep you informed of anti-virus industry trends, ways you can make your job easier, and the tools McAfee offers to help you in your battle against virus security threats. |
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Secure Your Enterprise With McAfee Proactive Threat Protection Today's blended threats are smarter and faster than ever before. At the same time, IT staffs are tasked with protecting more devices than ever before. The result is a growing "window of vulnerability" between the appearance of a new threat and an organization's ability to deploy a fix for that threat. Proactive Threat Protection secures your network from new threats IN ADVANCE—closing the window of vulnerability. Click here for more information. [ Back to top ] Introducing McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.0 McAfee VirusScan Enterprise delivers comprehensive protection from viruses, worms, Trojans, and other malicious code for desktops and fileservers. VirusScan Enterprise, designed for today's fast-moving, highly adaptive small businesses and large enterprises, offers easy, scalable protection. Top Reason to buy:
[ Back to top ] McAfee FIRST in Latest University of Hamburg Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware Tests The University of Hamburg Virus Test Center—well respected throughout the anti-virus industry—has awarded McAfee FIRST place in EIGHT categories, in its December 2002 anti-virus and anti-malware tests—under DOS, Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Linux platforms. Once again, McAfee reigns supreme in the field of virus detection, scoring higher than any other vendor. Click here for the full results and here for information on McAfee's comprehensive scanning technology. [ Back to top ] NEW WebShield e1000 appliance Brand new to the WebShield appliance family is the WebShield e1000. This exciting new appliance offers anti-virus and content management software in an integrated hardware and software solution. Scanning for protocols, offering transparent installation, and with scanning speeds of up to 160,000 SMTP message per hour, this new addition to the WebShield appliance family is suitable for even the largest organization. Click here for more information. [ Back to top ] The 4240 McAfee Scan Engine—Protecting Against The Latest Threats Anti-virus protection is only as good as its last update! More than 200 new threats appear every month and if you're not up-to-date, you are vulnerable to any one of them that gets a foothold in the field. However, updated DATs—containing the "what to look for" information on all of these threats—is only part of the solution. It's equally important to update your scan engine. The nature of the threat changes over time. New types of threat appear, new file-types become vulnerable, applications and operating systems are updated. The engine understands all the different structures in which a virus could lurk. The 4240 scan engine was released on 24 February as an engine-only SuperDAT package. The first combined DAT and engine SuperDAT package will be released on 26 March. Make sure that you benefit from the latest McAfee scanning technology! Click here to download the 4240 scan engine. [ Back to top ] Network Associates New Security Initiative to Drive Protection for Emerging Wireless Technologies According to a recent study by Mercer Management Consulting, wireless breaches will cost mobile operators upwards of $4 billion by 2005 in North America alone. To address the challenge of growing carrier and corporate wireless security risks, McAfee Security has embarked on developing industry partnerships with leaders such as Texas Instruments and Symbian, and has continued delivering technology innovations for VirusScan®, ThreatScan™, and anti-spam solutions to enhance threat protection and content security. For more information, please visit the press release. [ Back to top ] Boosting the Effectiveness of Applications and Services Around the Globe Using the McAfee scan engine SDK [Software Developers Kit] application and managed service providers can integrate the McAfee scan engine directly into their own solutions, greatly enhancing their own offering to their customers. The speed at which today's threats spread and their potential impact in economic terms, have led many customers to expect protection from today's malicious code to be included in such services automatically. The McAfee scan engine SDK makes it easy for Network Associates' partners to deliver the advanced protection their customers demand. Click here for further information. [ Back to top ] Tip of the Month—Locking Down Your Anti-Virus Settings Centralized management and enforcement of anti-virus policy is the key to solving this simple problem faced by our customers on a daily basis. ePolicy Orchestrator, with the input from many worldwide customers, has been designed as a solution to help administrators maintain and manage their anti-virus policy from one central location. To prevent accidental or deliberate changes to anti-virus settings, ePolicy Orchestrator includes several safeguards that can be set and managed from one central console. It allows anti-virus software to run "silently" on a desktop by providing administrators with the ability to hide the respective tray icons and, as an added layer of security, password protect the settings. Additionally, constant reinforcement of policy can be set to occur at regular intervals. This ensures that any changes made, outside of policy, are automatically and seamlessly corrected, including re-installation of anti-virus software that has been removed or disabled. However, reinforcement of policy does not always require communication with a central server as policy will be maintained at a local PC level even when not connected to the network. This is of particular importance for remote or mobile users. Click here for more information. [ Back to top ] Get the Most from Your Investment with McAfee University The more you know about how to use your McAfee Security products, the more you can get from your investment. Our new McAfee Security University offerings can help you to get the best value from your McAfee Security solutions. Once you've made an investment in McAfee Security solutions, it is only good sense to maximize the return on your investment. The more you know about how to use the McAfee Security products, the more benefit you can get from them. Our new McAfee Security University offerings can help you to get the best value from your investment. In North America, we're currently offering two classes in eight cities.
[ Back to top ] Network Associates—Securing the Public's Data Network Associates is the trusted expert in virus protection, intrusion protection and detection, network security, and availability assurance. As a reliable partner for your network defense, we provide Federal, state, and local government solutions to ensure reliable government communications and continuity. For more details, please click here. And for a list of government, education, and health seminars and tradeshows we'll be attending, click here. [ Back to top ] Join the McAfee Beta Test Program McAfee beta software provides our customers with the opportunity to test forthcoming product releases within their own environment and to report any problems found. The aim of the beta team is to ensure that McAfee products are released with no known defects. Help us to achieve this goal by becoming a McAfee beta tester. Current beta products:
[ Back to top ] In the News Microsoft Says Virus Attacked Web Server Computers (Update4) Bloomberg By Erik Schatzker and Theresa Ebden 25 January 2003 Internet Under Attack Network World Online By Stacy Cowley and Martyn Williams 25 January 2003 Computer worm snarls Web The San Jose Mercury News By Aaron Davis of The San Jose Mercury News 26 January 2003 Bank One, Other Companies Fix Microsoft `Slammer' (Update1) Bloomberg online By Jason Kelly of Bloomberg 27 January 2003 Businesses dig out from Slammer IDG By Paul Roberts 27 January 2003 Manic Monday for SQL Server admins SearchSecurity.com By Michael S. Mimoso of SearchSecurity 27 January 2003 Viruses Get Smarter Computerworld By Dan Verton of Computerworld 27 January 2003 HP Taps Channel For New Security Bundle Computer Reseller News By Craig Zarley 31 January 2003 Network Associates unveils wireless strategy InfoWorld By Paul Roberts of IDG News Service 5 February 2003 Network Associates locks in on wireless security Telephony Online By Dan O'Shea 5 February 2003 Network Associates Unveils Wireless Security Plans AllNetDevices.com By Vikki Lipset 5 February 2003 RCR Wireless online Network Associates ready to bring security solutions to wireless By RCR Staff 6 February 2003 Beefing Up Antivirus Computer Reseller News online By Marcia Savage 14 February 2003 McAfee pumps up security gateway Network World By Ellen Messmer and Jason Meserve 17 February 2003 Texas Instruments unveils 4 GSM-based chipsets Global Wireless online By Staff 18 February 2003 NAI, TI Team on Wireless Security eWeek online By Carmen Nobel 19 February 2003 [ Back to top ] You have received this message because you are a subscriber to the Network Associates or McAfee Security Web sites. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at the end of this message. This information update is available at no charge to all registered users of Network Associates website. * To change your email address, send a reply to this email address and to subscribe@nai.com with the words, "change-address" in the subject line. In the body of the message include your old and new email addresses with the original message. Use the following format for email changes: OLD: enduser@olddomain.com NEW: Joseph_User@newdomain.com  |
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