Viruses, Viruses Everywhere

Over 60,000 viruses are making the rounds; able to do everything from emailing your financials to whomever they please to erasing hard drives on a whim. And now the engineers of these troublesome programs are finding new ways to bring your network down. According to the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, there is evidence that “tens of thousands of systems have been compromised” by viruses transmitted over Internet chat and Instant Messaging services such as AOL’s Instant Messenger and ICQ.

Symantec AntiVirus – Corporate Edition

While indispensable, firewalls and intrusion detectors are not enough. With the legion of rapidly spreading, destructive viruses growing daily, your computers require complete virus protection at both the network server and workstation levels.

It’s Friday afternoon and your staff is working hard toward a critical deadline. Suddenly, the W32.Bugbear@mm virus strikes. It terminates your antivirus and firewall programs, opens a backdoor for hackers to come in, and begins a mass mailing routine that chokes your network bandwidth and shuts you down. No one can tell when your network will be up and running again.

Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.0 provides the best available multi-platform protection at both the network and workstation levels. Its Digital Immune System and Closed Loop Automation deploy powerful cures faster than viruses can spread. Of even greater importance is the system’s Bloodhound™ technology, with its capability to catch never before seen viruses by recognizing their “virus-like” behavior. Bloodhound has been shown to provide real-time protection against 90% of new macro viruses and 80% of new file viruses.

A centralized quarantine feature increases the protection for your system by removing captured viruses to a designated safe area on the server, preventing accidental mismanagement of the threat. With Corporate Edition’s centralized management, IT administrators can keep every machine on the network updated and properly configured from a single management console. Symantec’s exclusive NAVEX™ technology allows updates to virus definitions and to the scanning and repair engines themselves without the need to redeploy software or reboot the system. Mobile workstations are kept up to date with a new “roaming” virus definition update capability.

Backed by Symantec™ Security Response, the world’s leading Internet security research and support organization, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.0 represents the industry’s best scalable, cross-platform virus protection for business.