[WinPartners] Virusscan Enterprise 8.0i Release Announcement

[Atticus Gifford]

Date: Thursday, 9 September 2004
To: MIT Community: itpartners at mit.edu, winpartners at mit.edu,
sw-release-announce at mit.edu, kakapo at mit.edu
Cc: itag at mit.edu, is&t at mit.edu
From: Software Release Team
Subject: Virusscan 8.0i Release Announcement

Good Afternoon,

On behalf of the Virusscan Release Team, I am pleased to announce the 
release of Virusscan Enterprise 8.0i. Virusscan is an antivirus program 
that runs on the Windows 2000 and XP client and Windows 2000 and 2003 
server platforms. Virusscan Enterprise 8.0i contains many enhancements 
and new features, including the ability to detect and remove a growing 
number of spyware/malware programs and to scan and prevent scripts from 
performing malicious actions.

Notable Features of Virusscan:
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-Access protection
-Integrated anti-malware/spyware functionality
-Blocking (This feature blocks connections from remote computers which 
have infected files in a shared folder)
-Buffer overflow protection
-Unwanted programs policy
-Script scanning
-Microsoft Outlook e-mail scanning
-Selective updating (autoupdate)
-Alert manager (local alerting)
-Repair installation
-Error reporting service

Known Issues:
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-limited anti-malware/spyware capabilities: Although this new version 
of Virusscan contains anti-spyware/malware functionality, it is not yet 
a complete solution. The release team urges you to review MIT's 
anti-malware page to learn how you can better protect yourself against 
this increasingly prevalent threat to your privacy: 
http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/security/malware.html

How to Obtain:
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MIT possesses a site license for Virusscan, so the program is available 
to MIT staff, students, faculty, and affiliates free of charge. You can 
download the product from the MIT IS&T Windows Software Site: 
https://web.mit.edu/software/win.html. Please note that you need a 
current personal certificate to download this software. If you do not 
have a current personal certificate, then you can obtain one from 
https://ca.mit.edu/.

Getting Help:
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The Virusscan at MIT page is located at: 
http://itinfo.mit.edu/product?vid=644

If you have a question or need assistance, please contact the Computing 
Help
Desk at computing-help at mit.edu or x3-1101.

All the Best,
Bryant C. Vernon
Virusscan 8.0i Product Release Coordinator
Software Release Team
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology