McAfee VirusScan 4.0.3
ThereÆs very little you could debate about with respect to this anti-virus package. It was easy to install, not very resource hungry, exhaustive but had simple configuration panels. The interface was somewhat similar to the Find Files interface in Windows. The vendor provided the software to us without any user manual so reviewing the manual was out of question. However, the help files associated with the program were good enough for the user to solve his possible queries. The Internet support was also quite effective. The Anti Virus Emergency Response Team, also called AVERT, was efficient and fast in responding to our queries.
The installation process allowed you to choose different configurations and also prompted to prepare an emergency disk. It also had the option to check before installing. The built-in background e-mail and download checking modules correctly identified compressed and uncompressed viruses before they were written to the disk. If you donÆt like background scanning, ViruScan added buttons to Outlook and Eudora to manually check attachments, which is a nice touch. VirusScan included many new and worthwhile features to make it worth considering. It could detect 96.7 per cent of the viruses, and its background monitor, though CPU hungry, didnÆt seem to slow down other programs. The cleaning rate was equally impressive-of the viruses detected there were only five-six which had to be deleted or moved because they could not be cleaned.
If Network Associates could clean up the number of modules running and increase the number of viruses it finds, this could be an even better anti-virus product.