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...harmful objects on your web browser specifically to block them access to vulnerable computer systems. Unlike viruses, harmful Java and ActiveX objects usually don't seek to power the web. Java, ActiveX, and scripted objects These programs, whether beneficial or harmful, come in a variety of..., with plenty of any interactive website. programs to collect and display information in ways never previously available. User's Guide xiii Java objects are called "controls." Preface Convergences in the technologies that have resulted from existing sources and fashion into the plug-ins,...
...harmful objects on your web browser specifically to block them access to vulnerable computer systems. Unlike viruses, harmful Java and ActiveX objects usually don't seek to power the web. Java, ActiveX, and scripted objects These programs, whether beneficial or harmful, come in a variety of..., with plenty of any interactive website. programs to collect and display information in ways never previously available. User's Guide xiii Java objects are called "controls." Preface Convergences in the technologies that have resulted from existing sources and fashion into the plug-ins,...
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...find it and use it -including Microsoft VBScript and Active Server Pages, Allaire Cold Fusion, and others. Programmers have written objects, for example, have reported encountering viruses constructed from infecting systems, but virus writers and security hackers have the host of other ...directly within the Microsoft Outlook e-mail client by hijacking its built-in VBScript support. xiv McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software Preface Instead, harmful objects exist to the unrelated Java language, first appeared in Netscape Navigator, with its implementation of version 3.2 of the Hyper...
...find it and use it -including Microsoft VBScript and Active Server Pages, Allaire Cold Fusion, and others. Programmers have written objects, for example, have reported encountering viruses constructed from infecting systems, but virus writers and security hackers have the host of other ...directly within the Microsoft Outlook e-mail client by hijacking its built-in VBScript support. xiv McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software Preface Instead, harmful objects exist to the unrelated Java language, first appeared in Netscape Navigator, with its implementation of version 3.2 of the Hyper...
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Because McAfee researchers are committed to providing you with effective and up-to protect your system, please tell them about any new Java classes, ActiveX controls, dangerous websites, or viruses that your system and escape detection. Note that can detect new and unnamed viruses as it deems appropriate, [email protected] [email protected] Use this address to send questions or virus samples to our North America and South America offices Use this address to send questions or virus samples to the McAfee Asia-Pacific research office, or the office in Australia and Southeast Asia...
Because McAfee researchers are committed to providing you with effective and up-to protect your system, please tell them about any new Java classes, ActiveX controls, dangerous websites, or viruses that your system and escape detection. Note that can detect new and unnamed viruses as it deems appropriate, [email protected] [email protected] Use this address to send questions or virus samples to our North America and South America offices Use this address to send questions or virus samples to the McAfee Asia-Pacific research office, or the office in Australia and Southeast Asia...
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...as one of a handful of pioneering utilities developed to combat the earliest virus epidemics of the personal computer age. They do so also because they recognize how much value McAfee anti-virus research and development brings to their computers from across the Internet. VirusScan software.... Architectural improvements mean that assist in the last decade to concentrate on page 31. Now, with features that spot viruses, block hostile ActiveX and Java objects, identify dangerous websites, stop infectious e-mail messages-and even root out "zombie" agents that each new subterfuge...
...as one of a handful of pioneering utilities developed to combat the earliest virus epidemics of the personal computer age. They do so also because they recognize how much value McAfee anti-virus research and development brings to their computers from across the Internet. VirusScan software.... Architectural improvements mean that assist in the last decade to concentrate on page 31. Now, with features that spot viruses, block hostile ActiveX and Java objects, identify dangerous websites, stop infectious e-mail messages-and even root out "zombie" agents that each new subterfuge...
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... arrive on its own functionality against your system. The latest VirusScan software releases, as Microsoft Outlook, can look for particular Java and ActiveX objects that keeps it from getting trapped in an endless hunt for malicious agents before they embed in other malicious..."task" can also enable or disable the VShield scanner from running a scan operation on -demand" scanning- Some virus writers embed their viruses inside documents that most viruses tend to leave in their wakes. This component gives you specify. About VirusScan Software Still others take this technique ...
... arrive on its own functionality against your system. The latest VirusScan software releases, as Microsoft Outlook, can look for particular Java and ActiveX objects that keeps it from getting trapped in an endless hunt for malicious agents before they embed in other malicious..."task" can also enable or disable the VShield scanner from running a scan operation on -demand" scanning- Some virus writers embed their viruses inside documents that most viruses tend to leave in their wakes. This component gives you specify. About VirusScan Software Still others take this technique ...
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... mailbox, or public folders to dangerous Internet sites. The VShield scanner comes with three other specialized modules that guard against hostile Java applets and ActiveX controls, that scan e-mail messages and attachments that you receive from various sources on the Internet. See "...for details. • The VShield scanner. See "Using the Alert Manager Client Configuration utility" on page 269 for details. 28 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software See "Using the ScreenScan utility" on page 281 for details. • The ScreenScan utility. Secure password protection for your screen...
... mailbox, or public folders to dangerous Internet sites. The VShield scanner comes with three other specialized modules that guard against hostile Java applets and ActiveX controls, that scan e-mail messages and attachments that you receive from various sources on the Internet. See "...for details. • The VShield scanner. See "Using the Alert Manager Client Configuration utility" on page 269 for details. 28 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software See "Using the ScreenScan utility" on page 281 for details. • The ScreenScan utility. Secure password protection for your screen...
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... malicious software Because VirusScan software consists of several component programs, any one of which could be active at one time, your possible responses to a virus infection or to other malicious software will depend upon which prompt option you chose in the module's Action... page. The following sections give an overview of the default responses available with continuous background protection against viruses, harmful Java and ActiveX objects, and...
... malicious software Because VirusScan software consists of several component programs, any one of which could be active at one time, your possible responses to a virus infection or to other malicious software will depend upon which prompt option you chose in the module's Action... page. The following sections give an overview of the default responses available with continuous background protection against viruses, harmful Java and ActiveX objects, and...
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... a basic level of protection that are susceptible to virus infection. VirusScan response options 70 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software Responding when Internet Filter detects a virus This module looks for a response when it finds a virus (Figure 3-6). Figure 3-5. Figure 3-6. With this initial configuration, the program will prompt you for hostile Java classes or ActiveX controls whenever you visit...
... a basic level of protection that are susceptible to virus infection. VirusScan response options 70 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software Responding when Internet Filter detects a virus This module looks for a response when it finds a virus (Figure 3-6). Figure 3-5. Figure 3-6. With this initial configuration, the program will prompt you for hostile Java classes or ActiveX controls whenever you visit...
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...viruses as your computer for all of which has a specialized function. In the VirusScan product, the VShield scanner performs this function. To learn more about the application, see Chapter 5, "Using the VirusScan application." Depending on how you configure it, the VShield scanner can monitor any file activity...box. The VShield modules are: • System Scan. McAfee desktop anti-virus products use your system or other computers read files from ...The scanner also includes optional features that guard against hostile Java applets and ActiveX controls, and that you work with ...
...viruses as your computer for all of which has a specialized function. In the VirusScan product, the VShield scanner performs this function. To learn more about the application, see Chapter 5, "Using the VirusScan application." Depending on how you configure it, the VShield scanner can monitor any file activity...box. The VShield modules are: • System Scan. McAfee desktop anti-virus products use your system or other computers read files from ...The scanner also includes optional features that guard against hostile Java applets and ActiveX controls, and that you work with ...
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...and network drives. If you can also block your first line of the VirusScan comprehensive anti-virus software security package. It can make it an integral part of anti-virus defense, and your system, including those that arrive via e-mail or as Eudora Pro, Microsoft ...include such e-mail client programs as downloads from within infected files. 86 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software Using the VShield Scanner • Download Scan. This module provides password protection for and blocks hostile Java classes and ActiveX controls from the Internet. Doing so can protect any ...
...and network drives. If you can also block your first line of the VirusScan comprehensive anti-virus software security package. It can make it an integral part of anti-virus defense, and your system, including those that arrive via e-mail or as Eudora Pro, Microsoft ...include such e-mail client programs as downloads from within infected files. 86 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software Using the VShield Scanner • Download Scan. This module provides password protection for and blocks hostile Java classes and ActiveX controls from the Internet. Doing so can protect any ...
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The VShield scanner can block harmful ActiveX and Java objects from connecting to, either by scanning the hundreds of harmful ... properties" on a network in the form of the most popular web browsers and e-mail client software available for viruses before they work correctly with many of downloadable malicious software. or Internet sites that could cause problems. • ... To work on page 97 to learn how to the Internet or work with a range of dangerous web- McAfee has tested these items against a current list of objects you download as you connect to the web or to...
The VShield scanner can block harmful ActiveX and Java objects from connecting to, either by scanning the hundreds of harmful ... properties" on a network in the form of the most popular web browsers and e-mail client software available for viruses before they work correctly with many of downloadable malicious software. or Internet sites that could cause problems. • ... To work on page 97 to learn how to the Internet or work with a range of dangerous web- McAfee has tested these items against a current list of objects you download as you connect to the web or to...
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... applet protection and access prevention to unsafe websites, then click Next> to the VShield Properties dialog box. To have the Internet Filter module block hostile Java and ActiveX objects or dangerous Internet sites that it uses to check the sites you visit and the objects you encounter. VShield configuration wizard - Otherwise...
... applet protection and access prevention to unsafe websites, then click Next> to the VShield Properties dialog box. To have the Internet Filter module block hostile Java and ActiveX objects or dangerous Internet sites that it uses to check the sites you visit and the objects you encounter. VShield configuration wizard - Otherwise...
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...138; NOTE: Clicking Cancel will not appear here unless you used the Custom Setup option to install the Internet Scan component. 140 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software You can block the dangerous object or site automatically. Dangerous objects such as you visit by clicking Apply. The Internet Filter module... you of the interactive benefits of the Download Scan Properties dialog box to your system. Configuring the Internet Filter module Although both Java and ActiveX objects include safeguards designed to prevent harm to do, or it takes the action or in the Download Scan module ...
...138; NOTE: Clicking Cancel will not appear here unless you used the Custom Setup option to install the Internet Scan component. 140 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software You can block the dangerous object or site automatically. Dangerous objects such as you visit by clicking Apply. The Internet Filter module... you of the interactive benefits of the Download Scan Properties dialog box to your system. Configuring the Internet Filter module Although both Java and ActiveX objects include safeguards designed to prevent harm to do, or it takes the action or in the Download Scan module ...
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...page. 2. See "Choosing Action options" on the Internet sites you visit. Specify which objects you with an internal database that the Enable Java & ActiveX filter checkbox is selected. User's Guide 141 Your options are: • ActiveX Controls. Select this checkbox to have the ...module look for more details. Internet Filter Properties - Figure 4-31. This activates the options in order to prevent you from downloading. The Internet Filter module will compare the objects you encounter as you visit Internet ...
...page. 2. See "Choosing Action options" on the Internet sites you visit. Specify which objects you with an internal database that the Enable Java & ActiveX filter checkbox is selected. User's Guide 141 Your options are: • ActiveX Controls. Select this checkbox to have the ...module look for more details. Internet Filter Properties - Figure 4-31. This activates the options in order to prevent you from downloading. The Internet Filter module will compare the objects you encounter as you visit Internet ...
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... is the banned site's domain address-the number you use this number to identify a specific computer or network of danger, you know that download hostile Java or ActiveX objects to filter. Select this checkbox to tell the module to change this site. 142...
... is the banned site's domain address-the number you use this number to identify a specific computer or network of danger, you know that download hostile Java or ActiveX objects to filter. Select this checkbox to tell the module to change this site. 142...
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... (HTTP). The Internet's Domain Name System translates URLs into IP addresses using an up-to the Internet Filter Properties dialog box. 144 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software To add a site to request a resource from that appears (Figure 4-35). URLs specify the domain name and location of the...password-protect your settings to the Banned IP addresses dialog box. By default, the list includes two domain names that download hostile Java or ActiveX objects to the Banned URLs list in the in the dialog box that computer. Other transport protocols include "ftp://" and "...
... (HTTP). The Internet's Domain Name System translates URLs into IP addresses using an up-to the Internet Filter Properties dialog box. 144 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software To add a site to request a resource from that appears (Figure 4-35). URLs specify the domain name and location of the...password-protect your settings to the Banned IP addresses dialog box. By default, the list includes two domain names that download hostile Java or ActiveX objects to the Banned URLs list in the in the dialog box that computer. Other transport protocols include "ftp://" and "...
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...use . To set the Internet Filter module to use any text editor. Report page 148 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software Figure 4-38. Internet Filter Properties dialog box - You can serve as the Internet ... found. The same file records the number of Internet sites you visited while the module was active, and how many it to record its actions in a log file, follow these steps: ...1. Using the VShield Scanner Choosing Report options The Internet Filter module records how many Java and ActiveX objects it scanned, and how many dangerous sites the program kept your system and ...
...use . To set the Internet Filter module to use any text editor. Report page 148 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software Figure 4-38. Internet Filter Properties dialog box - You can serve as the Internet ... found. The same file records the number of Internet sites you visited while the module was active, and how many it to record its actions in a log file, follow these steps: ...1. Using the VShield Scanner Choosing Report options The Internet Filter module records how many Java and ActiveX objects it scanned, and how many dangerous sites the program kept your system and ...
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... VShield Properties dialog box. Other functions available in the log file for and then scanning e-mail you receive, files you run or download, or Java and ActiveX objects you encounter. User's Guide 159 The information each module. This module reports the number of the dialog box, then click the...infected files it found , and the number it operates continuously in this dialog box are: • Enable or disable modules. If you have activated its progress: 1. Click the tab that appears, or click the ? Using the VShield Scanner Tracking VShield software status information Once you...
... VShield Properties dialog box. Other functions available in the log file for and then scanning e-mail you receive, files you run or download, or Java and ActiveX objects you encounter. User's Guide 159 The information each module. This module reports the number of the dialog box, then click the...infected files it found , and the number it operates continuously in this dialog box are: • Enable or disable modules. If you have activated its progress: 1. Click the tab that appears, or click the ? Using the VShield Scanner Tracking VShield software status information Once you...
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...Macro/script Program Compressed Macro Program File Description Files with Microsoft Internet Information Server. Microsoft Active Server Pages files. These files contain script commands for use with no extension. Java class files (truncated from the list. • Click Default to close the dialog ... your changes. DOS batch files. Later versions of Corel Draw include a scripting language that it from .CLASS) 288 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software This ensures that you have added to these file types. LH ARC files, older version Robert Jung .ARJ compressed archive...
...Macro/script Program Compressed Macro Program File Description Files with Microsoft Internet Information Server. Microsoft Active Server Pages files. These files contain script commands for use with no extension. Java class files (truncated from the list. • Click Default to close the dialog ... your changes. DOS batch files. Later versions of Corel Draw include a scripting language that it from .CLASS) 288 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software This ensures that you have added to these file types. LH ARC files, older version Robert Jung .ARJ compressed archive...
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...103 to 104, 119, 132 to 133, 178 to 180, 211, 258, 272 history of viruses, vii to xiv hostile objects distinction between viruses and, xiii Java classes and ActiveX controls as, xiii to xiv aborting if virus detected during, 59 testing effectiveness of, 55 Internet e-mail clients, choosing in configuration wizard, 95... deleting recorded in log file, 111, 128, 139 moving, 107, 122, 135 recorded in log file, 111, 128, 139 J Java classes as malicious software, xiii to xiv distinction between viruses and, xiii L log file creating with text editor, 110 to 111, 127, 138, 148 to 149, 173 to 174, 183 ...
...103 to 104, 119, 132 to 133, 178 to 180, 211, 258, 272 history of viruses, vii to xiv hostile objects distinction between viruses and, xiii Java classes and ActiveX controls as, xiii to xiv aborting if virus detected during, 59 testing effectiveness of, 55 Internet e-mail clients, choosing in configuration wizard, 95... deleting recorded in log file, 111, 128, 139 moving, 107, 122, 135 recorded in log file, 111, 128, 139 J Java classes as malicious software, xiii to xiv distinction between viruses and, xiii L log file creating with text editor, 110 to 111, 127, 138, 148 to 149, 173 to 174, 183 ...