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McCafee' s VirusScan, claimed to be the first choice of 16,000 corporate clients, is a comprehensive and effective virus detection and removal system that may be the most advanced and well-distributed on the market. The impressive feature set and intuitive interface make the program easy to use. VirusScan runs in the background, but can provide on-demand detection and removal of known and unknown viruses during file access, create, copy, rename, run, disk access, system startup, and system shutdown. Sporting a new and more attractive interface, it detects a multitude of virus types in files, diskettes, and drives, that include boot, file, mutating, macro, stealth, and encrypted viruses, and has the ability to remove far more viruses than preceding versions. The user can select basic or advanced scanning options, and choose automated responses at virus detection that unclude notification, logging, deletion, isolation, or cleaning.

One feature in particular could make McAfee VirusScan the pinnacle of virus scanners. VirusScan has the ability to be updated continuously to accommodate new viruses, which are discovered at a rate of more than 200 a month. These new viruses are not detected using older data files. McAfee continually updates the files VirusScan uses to detect viruses and notifies owners when they need to update the virus definition database.

McAfee's impressive new Hunter scanning technology dramatically improves scanning performance. Its 32-bit, multi-threaded implementation is designed to utilize the latest advances in memory and I/O management. VirusScan 3.0 is claimed to offer some of the highest scanning and removal rates in the industry.


Tails Up:
Advanced virus-scanning engine; user-friendly; works concurrently in background; updatable to accommodate new viruses.

Tails Down:
Doesn't offer heuristic virus detection of competitor. Significance of heuristic viruses unproven.