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Best Practices: VirusScan Enterprise 7 - Walkthrough Guide

Overview VirusScan 7 is the new common desktop and server anti-virus product for Windows 32-bit platforms, replacing VirusScan 4.x and NetShield 4.5 for NT. With VirusScan 7 is a new complimentary tool that allows to you create and maintain update sites used by VirusScan 7. McAfee refers to these sites as repositories. The technology used to achieve this is McAfee AutoUpdate Architect, which is offered in two versions.

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Publisher	Networks Associates Technology	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	June 2003	Downloads	95
Format	White Papers
Topics	Anti-Virus, Security Management, Security Applications

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