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VirusScan Wireless review
Reviews VirusScan Wireless checks files on your handheld before you synchronise them with your PC, thus preventing any infected files from making their way onto your PC and causing problems. Note that VirusScan Wireless doesn't protect your handheld...
[May 3, 2001, 0:00]
VirusScan 6.0 review
Reviews When it detects an anomaly, VirusScan pops up an alert and gives you a chance to either delete or fix the infected file or quarantine it in a lockbox where it can't make mischief. VirusScan's anti-virus software now comes bundled with a basic...
[January 15, 2002, 23:00]
McAfee VirusScan 8.0 review
Reviews Last year, we praised VirusScan's browser-like interface but found its multiple Web-page-like screens tedious to navigate -- particularly when you had to dig through several layers just to change a few basic settings.
[September 29, 2003, 11:20]
McAfee VirusScan Home Edition 7.0 review
Reviews Current VirusScan users who use Outlook Express or Eudora will want the new features for those applications and should upgrade, while current Outlook users should pass for now. Choosing between NAV 2003 and VirusScan 7.0?
[January 20, 2003, 11:20]
McAfee VirusScan 9.0 review
Reviews Dig deeper, however, and you'll see that McAfee has dropped version 8.0's austere configuration screen in favour of a tab-based, easier-to-read appearance akin to that of VirusScan 7.0. In our informal tests, McAfee VirusScan 9.0 installed in less...
[October 7, 2004, 10:45]
McAfee VirusScan Definition
Downloads McAfee Virus Scan Updates - latest virus definition update for users of McAfee's antivirus product.
[November 19, 2009, 4:21]
Network Associates gets proactive with viruses
News Network Associates has announced the beta release of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0, which combines proactive and reactive security measures in one software package. VirusScan Enterprise 8.0 uses a combination of behavioural rules and signatures...
[June 7, 2004, 16:10]
McAfee antivirus update damages NT 4.0
News A number of Windows NT 4.0 users who updated Network Associate's McAfee VirusScan/Netshield 4.0.2 using the 4120/4110 SuperDat utility were greeted with an ominous error message upon rebooting: "Operating System Not Found.
[December 19, 2000, 14:35]
McAfee upgrade hampers Lotus Notes
News People who use both IBM Lotus Notes and McAfee VirusScan Enterprise may want to hold off on upgrading to the latest version of the McAfee software. Installing McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i on a PC that also runs the Lotus Notes email client can...
[January 23, 2007, 9:13]
McAfee virus definition crashes Windows
News All Windows platforms could be affected by this bug if the installed version of the VirusScan has a scan engine version of 4.0.02. Network Associates has confirmed a bug in the latest McAfee VirusScan's virus definition file that could cause many...
[November 3, 2000, 8:26]
Norton AntiVirus 2004 review
Reviews Norton AntiVirus 2004 offers the option of a pre-installation virus scan, an added protection measure not matched by its leading competitor, McAfee’s VirusScan 8.0. McAfee VirusScan 8.0, on the other hand, produced no perceptible drag.
[September 29, 2003, 9:00]
Mobile antivirus products arrive in force
News McAfee released VirusScan Mobile, its first antivirus product for mobile phones because, it says, the number of mobile malware incidents is set to grow. Carter also admitted that McAfee had seen poor uptake of its antivirus product for PDAs, which...
[February 14, 2006, 13:35]
McAfee unleashes the Falcon
News The suites - McAfee Total Protection, McAfee Internet Security Suite, McAfee PC Protection Plus and McAfee VirusScan Plus - are based on the company's new Falcon technology and are designed to compete with products from Symantec and security...
[August 2, 2006, 9:35]
Your antivirus software has B.O. review
Reviews Some vulnerabilities were quite rare: McAfee VirusScan, for instance, produced a buffer overflow -- but only when processing LHA compacted files on Linux. Then, earlier this year, we began to hear about flaws in Symantec Norton AntiVirus and McAfee...
[December 12, 2005, 10:35]
PC-cillin Internet Security 12 review
Reviews We did not run the Office Productivity portion of the benchmark because it incorporates McAfee VirusScan 5.13. And PC-cillin also took much less time to scan our 1.3GB hard drive than did F-Secure, Norton AntiVirus or McAfee VirusScan.
[November 1, 2004, 9:59]
McAfee's 'Falcon' to come in four flavours
News At the bottom of the new McAfee lineup is McAfee VirusScan Plus, which includes only the basic features. Beta test versions of the new McAfee Total Protection and McAfee VirusScan Plus software are slated to be available this month, with final...
[June 7, 2006, 9:35]
ZoneAlarm with Antivirus review
Reviews In our tests, ZoneAlarm with Antivirus caused less of a drag on system performance than Norton AntiVirus 2004 but more than McAfee VirusScan 8.0. You might expect ZoneAlarm with Antivirus to get clobbered in a feature-to-feature bout with such anti...
[May 27, 2004, 9:30]
PC-cillin Internet Security 11 review
Reviews PC-cillin Internet Security 11 is what Norton AntiVirus 2004 and McAfee VirusScan 8.0 both strive to be: an all-around security solution for your desktop PC. In our tests, PC-cillin 2004 caused less drag on system performance than Norton AntiVirus...
[January 12, 2004, 9:55]
Norton AntiVirus 2003 review
Reviews Unfortunately, unlike its major competitor, McAfee’s VirusScan, NAV 2003 scans ZIP files during the extraction process -- after you've downloaded them. We did not run the Office Productivity portion of the benchmark because it incorporates McAfee’s...
[September 10, 2002, 7:25]
True costs of client antivirus software
News McAfee offers a similar pricing plan for VirusScan. McAfee doesn't offer any information about subscription services relating to this product on the Web site, but its new VirusScan Online service costs $29.95 per year.
[July 11, 2002, 10:11]
