Active Virus Defense Enterprise (AVD)

McAfee Active Virus Defense (AVD) is a suite of products that protects your desktops, Internet gateways, e-mail servers, and file servers from all types of viruses.

Used in conjunction with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), Active Virus Defense provides you with single-console management and reporting. McAfee VirusScan Enterprise protects your desktops and file servers. McAfee WebShield keeps viruses out of your Internet gateway. McAfee GroupShield covers your mail servers. And, McAfee NetShield protects your Netware file servers.

Our proven anti-virus technology blends heuristics and generic information to identify both known and unknown viruses. Updates are critical to effective virus protection and Active Virus Defense automatically downloads the latest virus-pattern data for continuous, up-to-date protection.

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Benefits

• Broad Protection Active Virus Defense protects you against all types of viruses and malicious code, including new and unknown threats
• Cohesive integrated solution Active Virus Defense’s tools combine to give you seamless operation in a coordinated, easy-to-manage solution
• Complete system protection You get comprehensive protection for your desktops, file servers, e-mail servers, and Internet gateway
• Single console management Used with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, Active Virus Defense provides you a complete, single-console, security management solution, including detailed graphical reporting
• Updates itself automatically Active Virus Defense automatically keeps you current with the latest security updates, so that your IT staff does have have to spend their valuable time on manual processes

Features:

• Proven anti-virus technology McAfee anti-virus virus technology blocks a wide range of virus and malicious code threat; it uses advanced heuristics as well as generic detection so you are protected against new viruses and other threats
• Centralized management Active Virus Defense and ePolicy Orchestrator are integrated for coordinated policy management, deployment, and detailed graphical reporting from one console; ePolicy Orchestrator also helps you enforce virus protection compliance
• Desktop and file server protection McAfee VirusScan protects your desktops and file servers against viruses and other threats; it guards your system against exploits that target vulnerabilities in Microsoft applications and OS services
• Internet gateway protection By stopping them at the Internet gateway, McAfee WebShield keeps viruses and other Web-based threats out of your network; using integrated content filtering, it also prevents offensive or inappropriate content from reaching your users
• E-mail server protection Viruses may also enter your system through an e-mail server; McAfee GroupShield specifically protects this layer of your network with anti-virus support for Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange servers
• Netware file server protection McAfee NetShield protects your NetWare file servers; using real-time scanning, it detects and cleans viruses and other threats; NetShield will not rescan clean files unless they have been modified, thereby improving performance and efficiency
• Automatic updating Forget about manual updating; Active Virus Defense automatically pulls the latest updates, keeping all your systems current and protected

Active Virus Defence SMB 

Active Virus Defence SMB edition is also available for a limited period.  The only difference between Enterprise and SMB version is the management console which is a scaled down version on the SMB version called Protection Pilot.

AVD SMB will stop being sold as new in the US in July 2007.  McAfee will keep supporting the product for the time being, but end users are encouraged to either upgrade to the Enterprise version or move to the managed Antivirus cover called Total Protection for Small Business.

McAfee Active Virus Defence Datasheet

Compliance Standards

Requirement 5: Use and regularly update anti-virus software

GCSX No 19 Content Analysis

A.10.4 Protection against malicious and mobile code

Core Components

• Virusscan Enterprise 
  The primary Virusscan engine for all the McAfee Antivirus Suites that is designed to cover both Desktop and Server.
• Virusscan for Netshield
  Specifically protects Netware File Servers
• Security for Email Servers
  Mail Server virus protection and content filtering
• Webshield
  Keeps viruses out of your Internet Gateway
• ePolicy Orchastrator (ePO)
  The core management console for all Enterprise products / suites.