Mcafee 8.0i firewall

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More from the IDG Network. Security Log. Network Associates updates intrusion-prevention products. Cisco releases Network Admission Control products. Organizations cannot afford to wait for every threat to be identified and a signature file to be released. The time between attack and subsequent identification is critical, and the shorter, the better. It is better yet if your protection technology identifies new, unknown threats. By combining advanced anti-virus, firewall, and intrusion prevention technologies, VirusScan Enterprise 8i covers a broad range of threats.

With advanced heuristics and generic detection it finds new, unknown viruses, even those hidden in compressed files. McAfee VirusScan Enterprise looks for exploits known to target Microsoft applications and services and will identify and block threats that take advantage of JavaScript and Visual Basic coding.

The announcement comes as antivirus software makers and networking equipment vendors look for ways to harden machines against possible compromise and crack down on a host of threats, from spam and spyware to bogus Web pages used in phishing scams.

The Entercept technology allows VirusScan to spot malicious code used to exploit vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system and Microsoft Corp. The product requires periodic updates from McAfee, but Bedrick was reluctant to call the IPS updates "signatures," for fear of lumping them in with the frequent antivirus updates that are required when new worms and viruses appear.

For example, VirusScan 8. VirusScan 8. However, unlike antivirus software, it does not require a new "signature" for each worm that targeted LSASS, Bedrick said. The new features are part of Protection-in-Depth, a McAfee program intended to provide many layers of defense against malicious computer activity, McAfee said. Instead, McAfee added a small set of IPS features that will provide the maximum protection to users while creating the minimum of "noise" such as blocking valid traffic, Bedrick said.

In doing so, McAfee had to strike a careful balance between making VirusScan more proactive and turning it into a nuisance for users, he said. The release of VirusScan 8.