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You´ll be amazed how thoroughly AntiVir® protects you

In order to guarantee high standards of reliability and convenience, the AntiVir software also contains other components beside the main programs of the various operating system versions. These provide useful functions and auxiliary services, and are put together to produce a made-to-measure AntiVir package for your individual operating system. The precise combinations of components can be found in the tables on the following pages.

Functions and characteristics of AntiVir®

  • Reliable detection and removal of viruses.
  • Scanning and repair of macro viruses with a wide range of configuration options.
  • Various scanning modes from quick virus checks to full-scale inspections.
  • Protection against viruses from the Internet: special AntiVir mail program packages are available for checking and monitoring e-mails and attachments.
  • The resident Virus Guard serves to monitor file movements automatically, e.g. downloading of data from the Internet. This module, which operates in the background, can scan files at high speed, repair online without the user’s intervention and detect macro viruses, and has the same scanning capacity as the main AntiVir program.
  • Repairing of infected files. The virus is removed in such a way that the file generally remains executable. Files destroyed by a virus, on the other hand, are physically overwritten before being deleted, in which case they can then no longer be recovered even with repair utilities. An Intranet Update Wizard is available to help you bring your AntiVir program up to date.
  • Files, folders and drives can be combined into profiles and stored. With the aid of these profiles, you can then decide exactly which data and folders are to be scanned together.
  • The bootable AntiVir CD-ROM can be used to repair infected boot or master boot records without using an external operating system. This CD-ROM ensures scanning in a guaranteed virus-free environment.
  • Automatic activation of AntiVir via the Scheduler. This feature can also be used to start other applications beside AntiVir, and generate messages on a timed basis.
  • Virus alarms via the network in order to forewarn the administrator and other network partners. A wide range of configuration options is available for this purpose.
  • Optimal adaptation to individual requirements thanks to sophisticated settings for different operating systems.
  • Context-sensitive help in program windows.
  • Independent file viewer for AntiVir messages. AVReport can also be used to view log and text files created by other programs.
  • If operating systems with graphic interfaces are infected, the command-line-controlled virus scanners will help you out. These are characterised by their high scanning speed, and can be called automatically from a batch file, such as AUTOEXEC.BAT or the login script. The large number of parameters allows these virus scanners to be adapted to different user requirements.
  • In response to a detected virus, it is also possible to call any program automatically via command line parameters.
  • The password-protected configuration enables you to prevent anyone from changing the AntiVir presettings.
  • Extremely easy operation thanks to a clearly structured and well organised user interface.
  • Detailed manuals guide you through the installation and application of AntiVir.

Early warning systems of AntiVir®

  • Various checksum algorithms for checking the integrity of the data: the CRC database and calculation routine can detect any modifications to a file.
  • Detection of modifications in system areas. QCDRV is a modification detector which – once installed in the CONFIG.SYS file as a device driver – detects and reports any changes in important system areas after every restart.

AntiVir® and protection against unknown viruses

  • A heuristic macro virus detector can even alert the user to documents which have been infected by previously unknown macro viruses. If a suspicious macro is found, it is up to you
    to decide what to do with this macro and the possibly infected document.
  • Protection against boot record viruses
    via negative qualification of boot and master boot records. As well as scanning boot or master boot records for viruses, the programs also check whether the record in question has
    a recognisably clean record format.

We are now working on further useful functions and practical features for your benefit, and are open to all your ideas and suggestions.

AntiVir® for workstations

Supposing a virus occurs and no-one notices it.

As long as you have the right AntiVir version for your operating system, there’s no need to worry, for AntiVir provides effective protection for stand-alone computers, peer-to-peer networks or individual workstations within networks.

An operating system with a graphics interface may no longer work after a virus infection of the boot or master record for example. For this reason, the workstation versions of AntiVir always contain an additional version of AntiVir for DOS. You can bypass the operating systems installed on the hard disk by starting your computer with the aid of the bootable AntiVir CD-ROM and scanning it with AntiVir for DOS.

AntiVir for DOS is made up of three components: the command-line scanner, the scanning and repair program AntiVir and the device driver QCDRV.

To protect your e-mails and attachments, each AntiVir program package also comes with our workstation versions of AntiVir for Mail. This means that you can use AntiVir for Mail with different presettings to those of the main program, for example. Even senders of an infected attachment can be sent an instant warning.

  • free of charge versions for private use:

    • AntiVir® for servers

    You are responsible for countless PCs. However, even you only have one pair of eyes.

    AntiVir is a comprehensive, flexible anti-virus program for professional system administrators: You can greatly reduce the risk of infection on the workstations within an intranet by countering the risk of viruses immediately on the server. You can also retain control of the network: for example, on detection of a virus, the user concerned can be logged out or the infected workstation disabled. Also, the user’s login password can be changed, so that the user can no longer log into this server without the intervention of the system administrator. A workstation can also be denied access to infected files on the server.

    The reliability of AntiVir is also available for servers running under Novell NetWare. AntiVir for Novell NetWare runs as directly on a file server as an NLM (NetWare Loadable Module), which means that it cannot be manipulated by DOS viruses. The NLM can be adapted to your needs via the server console.

    AntiVir for Windows NT server also offers a wide range of configuration possibilities. After all, professional system administrators need an efficient real-time scanner. If a virus is detected during an attempt to copy to or from a server, the infected file can be repaired, deleted, overwritten, disabled or moved to a quarantine directory.

    The role of file server, e-mail gateway server, etc. is increasingly assumed by Linux computers. This means that they also transport and store data (e.g. documents from Office packages and e-mail attachments) which are not directly connected to Linux. This is an ideal environment for file viruses, macro viruses and other nasties, which are free to do their evil deeds on a Windows client, for example, whenever infected files are loaded or executed from it. For this reason, you should use AntiVir for Linux on a Linux server: after all, prevention is better than a nasty surprise.

    AntiVir for Linux can also be used as an e-mail scanner with the aid of a shell script.

    AntiVir® for mail

    The solutions for MimeSweeper by Content Technologies and WatchDog by Group GmbH are based on AntiVir SAVAPI. This DLL has the same detection capacity as the AntiVir command line scanner, but with a performance enhancement of up to 3000% (!) - the optimal solution for busy email systems!

    Question: Supposing you have Internet access – how do you control who sends you what by e-mail?

    Answer: By using AntiVir for Mail!

    These programs offer 32-bit systems automatic checks of incoming and outgoing e-mails and attachments under MS Exchange Workstation, MS Outlook, MS Messaging and Eudora. It is also possible to check specific mailboxes and folders – provided you have the appropriate rights. And all this can take place in the background, using all the standard scan and repair modes of AntiVir.

    With AntiVir for Exchange server, infected e-mails and attachments cannot even enter a network in the first place. For a mail server under MS Exchange, you need the comprehensive range of configuration possibilities which AntiVir for Exchange server offers.

    If a mail server is run under Linux, we have a solution for virus-free mailing: in conjunction with a shell script, AntiVir for Linux can also be used as an e-mail scanner.

    SAVAPI as component…

    • e-mail gateways
    • WWW/FTP proxys
    • firewalls
    • backup programs
    • packer programs

    Such products often activate a command-line scanner in order to detect viruses. This entails a number of system-related problems and limitations which can be avoided by using a virus scanner DLL such as SAVAPI.

    Advantage number one: high processing speed

    A command-line scanner has to be reloaded from the physical data medium and reinitialised for each individual file to be scanned. It then scans this individual file and is closed again before the next file is scanned. By contrast, SAVAPI is only initialised once when the application is started and remains activated. This allows it to react instantly to file scanning commands. This takes approx. 50-100 milliseconds, while a conventional solution with a command-line scanner takes several seconds.

    Advantage number two: low storage requirements particularly in multitasking systems

    Each time a command-line scanner is started and initialised, several MB of main memory are required. In multitasking systems, several hundred files can be edited simultaneously, which can increase the required memory space to several hundred megabytes for the command-line scanner alone. By contrast, SAVAPI only holds one multi-threading copy of its program code and its virus definitions in the memory, so that it hardly needs any extra main memory for each scanned file. This allows an enormous saving on resources and thus offers great advantages in terms of performance.

    Are you looking for a made-to-measure virus protection package but have so far failed to find the right product? Or are you in search of a virus protection program to integrate in your firewall? Whatever your specific virus protection needs, the Secure AntiVirus Application Programming Interface (SAVAPI) has the answer. SAVAPI is essentially the basic engine, i.e. the scan and repair component of AntiVir, which can be easily integrated into your applications. SAVAPI is currently incorporated in, and can be licensed for, the following program packages:

    The Secure AntiVirus Application Programming Interface (or SAVAPI for short) offers both developers and end users a wide range of functions for detecting and removing viruses. SAVAPI was developed in order to be able to incorporate professional virus protection into other applications. Typical examples of this are:

     

    (email scanner for SMTP, Lotus ccMail, Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino, Novell GroupWise and MS Exchange)

    (email scanner for Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes)
    • · AntiVir for LWP Secure Transfer

    (in preparation)