McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine - Linux P4 Command Line 5.3.00 RC

Product Overview

To aid continuous improvement of our Anti-Virus Scanning Engine we will be releasing regular Beta Engines throughout the development of the 5300 Anti-Virus Scanning Engine, allowing for regular feedback from the Beta community. This will enable you to be directly involved in the quality of our Anti-virus Scanning Engine, which forms the core malware detection and repair component of many McAfee products, throughout our development cycle of the 5300 Anti-Virus Scanning Engine.

Releases of the Beta Engines will be made at incremental points throughout the feature development of the new Anti-Virus Engine. We are expecting to release a new Beta Anti-Virus Scanning Engine every month, with the aim of releasing the 5300 Anti-Virus Scanning Engine during the second half of 2008.

The current Anti-Virus Engine release is:

RC - Jul


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New Product Features

  • Improved automatic identification and removal of malware delivering to the customer the next generation of best-of-breed Anti-Virus Scanning Engines. The 5300 Anti-Virus Scanning Engine offers improved protection against existing, new and future threats and increases the depth and breadth of the protection McAfee provide our customers.
  • 100% drop-in compatibility with the existing McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine and DAT files. It's easy to upgrade; just replace your existing Engine with the new version and you're protected.
  • Enhanced support for detection and repair for Office 12 documents, as well as improved ZIP file support.
  • Support for Solaris 10 on Intel x86 and x64.
  • Support for FreeBSD 6.2 and 7.0
  • Support for HP-UX 11i v3 on PA-Risc

SystemRequirements

Linux Versions Supported

  • Linux Intel Kernerl 2.4 & 2.6 (stdc++ library version >= 3.0) [x86 systems] 

Important Note
Please note that this version of the 5.3.00 Engine has been compiled with optimizations for Intel Pentium 4 CPUs and for systems using libstdc++ library version 5. It should not be used for installations that do not meet these criteria.

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The product has been optimised for Pentium 4 but is fully compatible with all Intel Pentium processors.