Welcome to Powertech Antivirus
Welcome to Powertech Antivirus, providing all of the power and protection of the industry-leading McAfee scanning engine.
You'll find Powertech Antivirus easy to use and a breeze to keep current with the latest virus definitions directly from McAfee and software updates from Powertech. With Powertech Antivirus you have the essential tools to ensure that your AIX or Linux server is protected from the threats of viruses, worms, and malware.
Powertech Antivirus is not an agent, it is a standalone service that can be centrally managed.
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McAfee's preeminent staff backs each new update of the virus-scanning engine and release of virus definition .DAT files. Their worldwide virus research team develops daily updates for the virus definition .DAT files, leaving you confident that your server is well protected from attack. Powertech Antivirus incorporates the latest generation of McAfee's scanning engine, in turn making Powertech Antivirus a mature product backed by battle-tested technology, advanced heuristic analysis, and generic detection and cleaning.
- Scans a single file or directory
- Scans within compressed files
- Decompresses and scans files within containers such as ZIP, RAR, etc.
- Detects and cleans macro and script viruses
- Detects and cleans encrypted and polymorphic viruses
- Detects and cleans viruses in executable files, OLE compound documents, and PDFs
- Detects and removes "Trojan horses", worms, and many other types of malicious software (malware)
- Upgrades easily to new scanning technology
- Includes technology to combat the latest and future threats
- Support for many more Packed Executable formats in which known malware is often re-packaged for obfuscation purposes
- Specific detection and reporting of files compressed or packaged with known suspicious applications
- Enhancements to enable scanning of non-standard ZIP archives
Learning more about viruses
Viruses can corrupt or destroy data, they spread rapidly, and they can make your computers unusable. We strongly recommend that you do not experiment with real viruses.
The Virus Information Library on the AVERT Anti-Virus Research Site https://home.mcafee.com/virusinfo contains detailed information about thousands of viruses.
