Etrust antivirus version 7

The security center is unnecessary, however, for EZ Antivirus, and serves only as a reminder that other eTrust security tools aren't purchased or installed. You can schedule regular, unattended scans, too. Or course, these features are standard fare for antivirus software, and we'd like to see eTrust's features beefed up a bit going forward. For instance, EZ Antivirus scans only inbound e-mail, whereas its competitors scan both inbound and outbound messages.

Outbound scanning is useful for blocking worms in outgoing messages. Spyware detection is essential, too--and a firewall. By having two engines in one product, administrators can increase security through diversity without doubling their costs or administrative headaches. With eTrust, administrators can choose to deploy either engine or both.

Unfortunately, it's not possible to configure individual users or servers to use both virus engines at the same time or on the same machine. For some servers, such as e-mail or file servers, the ability to run both engines would be a plus. Perhaps CA will add that to a future release. As it is, the company suggests configuring some users to use one engine and other users, the other engine.

That way, if a virus manages to evade one engine, then there is a chance that the other engine will catch it as it propagates through the network. Our recommended scheme is to use one for servers and the other for clients, to catch messages being passed back and forth. To be clear, we don't consider the dual engines a good enough reason to deploy eTrust. If we were paranoid enough to install multiple virus engines, we'd still want them to be provided by different vendors.

After all, we don't know how much eTrust code, algorithms, and signatures may be common to both engines — and thus share the same potential weaknesses. What sways us to recommend Version 7. You can administer individual users remotely from the management station or set policies and enforce them across the network.

The software also quickly and accurately finds machines on the LAN that are running the eTrust Antivirus software. It can also be configured with redundant antivirus policy and signature servers, adding a bit of robustness to the solution.

Based on the results of discovery scans, administrators can assign each machine to a threat group, each with its own policies for signature updates, assigned virus engine, and predetermined course of action when a virus is detected such as automated deletion or file quarantine.

For our test, we configured Windows and Linux servers to be in one threat group and Macintosh and Windows workstations to be in another. On a production network, we would assign mobile users and telecommuters to their own group and assign them more rigorous policies due to their greater likelihood of contamination. Dashboards The Dashboards in CMEP include overview pie chart reports that summarize the anti-malware products within your deployment.

Supported OS. Computer Associates. Mac OS X IBM Proventia Desktop. VirusScan for Mac. McAfee Group Shield 7. McAfee Security for Microsoft Exchange 7.