McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i


Recommended Posts

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise Edition 8.0i released Aug 25th.

Everyone,

I am pleased to announce that we are in the process of posting VSE 8.0i

for general availability via the McAfee website on August 25th, 2004.

This process does take some time to populate to servers and then QA

downloads and validates the packages, so realistically you can expect to

grab the packages at 7 or 8 PM PST tonight.

We will be posting English, German, French, Japanese, Spanish and

Simplified Chinese packages and documentation. Then in 2 weeks the rest

of our 13 supported languages will be made available.

We greatly appreciate everyone's patience and focus on getting the facts

to us and helping us to assure the quality of the release.

The Beta email lists will be shutdown today. Thank you for your active

participation and stay tuned for more information on future

developments. For those who have expressed particular interest in a

topic, for example the Potentially Unwanted Programs, our Product

Management will keep you informed separately regarding further

developments and opportunities for input and participation.

VirusScan 8.0i Product Information Page

Also released:

McAfee Installation Designer 8.0 (For creating custom installs)

McAfee Alert Manager 4.7.1

If you have your grant number, all are available for download directly from

Enterprise & Small Business Product Upgrade page

Link to comment
https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/209058-mcafee-virusscan-enterprise-80i/
Share on other sites

I tried the beta version of this through my college. Very simple interface, nice on-demand scanning, and the intrusion/buffer overflow detection was great without the need for a commerical firewall.

Radish?

It works great. We are using the entire suite here at work.

The Installation Designer lets you customize the install, including schedules, updating, alerting, policies, etc.

The AutoUpdate Architect is a managed intranet DAT repository (Kinda like a windows update for AV)

The Alert Manager can email, page, broadcast, etc virus outbreaks, etc.

It's working so good, it's sending alerts to things not expected. I had one yesterday, where the guy had his resume' and some job postings on a floppy that he was working on, and it caught a macro virus in them, and alerted us. So now his boss knows he is job hunting on company time. :devil:

It's catching all kinds of adware, etc.

And if you decide you want to change settings on it at a later date, you can create a new set of settings and push them, and they take effect on reboot, without having to uninstall and reinstall the full client.

And the new features of 8.0 are real nice, by default, it prevents IE, and Outlook from creating/running various extensions, allows you to block certain ports, but still specifiy applications which are allowed to use them. Has buffer overrun protection, integrates into the Windows Scripting, to help prevent script viruses. All kinds of goodness. :D

Piracy is a big no no for me. I'm just throwing out questions for you guys who have tested it.

edit: Using Panda right now. 1 yr free trial.  :yes:

How did you get the 1 year free trial? I got the full version of a security campaign website sponsored by Panda but you need to register it after 30 days for updates.

This new version of VirusScan also looks quite good.

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • Promoting is fine - advertising, informing, whatever.  But interrupting your PAID OS experience is not.
    • Why does a PDF software need an audio player inside it. What is this bloat.
    • Sadly, that is the state of things. It's basically considered acceptable for any random app running on your computer to use 1+ GB of RAM, and install space, lol, no one even seems to consider that.
    • EU Commission explains why Siri AI isn't launching in the EU, and Apple is to blame by Hamid Ganji Image via Apple This week at Apple’s 2026 developers conference, the iPhone maker unveiled the upgraded Siri after more than a year of delays. The new Siri is now called Siri AI, and it's powered by Google Gemini models. While Siri AI is preparing to roll out to Apple users worldwide, the company’s EU customers might need to wait much longer before getting their hands on the new assistant. Shortly after announcing iOS 27, Apple said in a blog post that Siri AI is not coming to the EU anytime soon due to hurdles posed by the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and other regulatory requirements. To comply with the DMA in the EU, Apple apparently needs to open Siri AI to rival assistants on iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. Apple has refused to do so, which has resulted in Siri AI being delayed for its EU users. The company argues that such a move would put users’ privacy at risk. In a statement to Neowin, a European Commission spokesperson provided more details about why Siri AI will not be rolled out to Apple customers in the region. The statement first noted that the DMA does not prohibit Apple from launching its services in the EU and that the company is simply required to comply with the law. The European Commission spokesperson added that, since Apple is considered a gatekeeper under the DMA, it is “obliged to give third parties access to equivalent features as they give to its own products. Because the DMA is precisely about giving users the choice to use the product they find best suits their needs.” Moreover, the spokesperson said the Commission has been in contact with Apple, though the company “did not develop proposals for DMA compliant interoperability solutions.” The statement also clarified that companies designated as gatekeepers cannot leverage their status and products, such as operating systems, to favor their own AI services. The first public beta of iOS 27 will roll out next month, while the stable version is expected to launch this fall following the release of the iPhone 18 series. It remains unclear when Apple will be able to resolve its DMA-related compliance issues with the European Commission and bring Siri AI to its European customers.
  • Recent Achievements

    • One Month Later
      pinnclepd earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • First Post
      X-No-file earned a badge
      First Post
    • One Month Later
      johnjacobb40 earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • One Year In
      Primer1st earned a badge
      One Year In
    • Experienced
      JayZJay went up a rank
      Experienced
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      510
    2. 2
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      214
    3. 3
      +Edouard
      145
    4. 4
      Steven P.
      88
    5. 5
      ATLien_0
      83
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!