Welcome to Powertech Antivirus
Powertech Antivirus allows you to protect your AIX and Linux servers from the threats of viruses, worms, and malware using the industry-leading McAfee scanning engine. Powertech Antivirus can run continuously as a service that automatically scans files as they are opened or closed—a process called On-Access Scanning. For additional protection, scans can also be run explicitly for a file or directory when required using On-Demand Scanning.
The status of endpoints on your network can be monitored and updated with the latest virus definitions directly from your browser using HelpSystems One. The virus definitions from McAfee can be acquired directly by the endpoints themselves or transferred through a local DAT file repository. Scan results and other endpoint activity is reported in HelpSystems One and easily accessible with search, sorting, and filtering features. Scan results are also available in reports and activity can also be monitored using notifications.
Powertech Antivirus offers all the essential tools needed to ensure that your systems are protected from the latest threats.
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McAfee's preeminent staff backs each new update of the virus-scanning engine and release of virus definition .DAT files. Their worldwide virus research team develops daily updates for the virus definition .DAT files, leaving you confident that your server is well protected from attack. Powertech Antivirus incorporates the latest generation of McAfee's scanning engine, in turn making Powertech Antivirus a mature product backed by battle-tested technology, advanced heuristic analysis, and generic detection and cleaning.
- Scans a single file or directory
- Scans within compressed files
- Decompresses and scans files within containers such as ZIP, RAR, etc.
- Detects and cleans macro and script viruses
- Detects and cleans encrypted and polymorphic viruses
- Detects and cleans viruses in executable files, OLE compound documents, and PDFs
- Detects and removes "Trojan horses", worms, and many other types of malicious software (malware)
- Upgrades easily to new scanning technology
- Includes technology to combat the latest and future threats
- Support for many more Packed Executable formats in which known malware is often re-packaged for obfuscation purposes
- Specific detection and reporting of files compressed or packaged with known suspicious applications
- Enhancements to enable scanning of non-standard ZIP archives
Learning more about viruses
Viruses can corrupt or destroy data, they spread rapidly, and they can make your computers unusable. We strongly recommend that you do not experiment with real viruses.
The Virus Information Library on the AVERT Anti-Virus Research Site https://home.mcafee.com/virusinfo contains detailed information about thousands of viruses.