McAfee VirusScan > Determine the number of scanning policies

• Preface
  • Audience
  • Conventions
  • How this guide is organized
  • Finding product documentation
• Getting Started
  • Introducing VirusScan Enterprise
  • Components and how they interact
  • The importance of creating a security strategy
  • VirusScan Console and ways to access it
    • VirusScan Console and how it works
    • Using right-click features
    • System tray icons and how they work
  • What to do first
• Part I - Prevention: Avoiding Threats
  • Access protection
    • How access threats are stopped
    • Control access to the user interface
      • How setting a password affects users
      • Configuring user interface security settings
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
        • VirusScan Console
  • Protecting your system access points
    • How access protection rules are defined
    • Access point violations and how VirusScan Enterprise responds
    • Types of user-defined rules
    • Configuring access protection settings
      • Configuring predefined rules
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
        • VirusScan Console
      • Configuring user-defined rules
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
        • VirusScan Console
      • Port blocking rule options
      • File and folder blocking rule options
      • Registry blocking rule options
      • Include or exclude specific process options
      • Removing user-defined rules
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
        • VirusScan Console
  • Blocking buffer overflow exploits
    • How buffer overflow exploits occur
    • Configuring buffer overflow protection
      • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
      • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
      • VirusScan Console
  • Restricting potentially unwanted programs
    • Configuring unwanted programs
      • Accessing the unwanted programs policies
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
        • VirusScan Console
      • Enabling unwanted program detection in the on-access and email scanners
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
        • VirusScan Console
  • Updating detection definitions
    • DAT files and how they work
    • The importance of an update strategy
      • How an update strategy is determined
      • Requirements for an efficient update strategy
    • Update tasks and how they work
      • Configuring the AutoUpdate task
    • Mirror tasks and how they work
      • Configuring the mirror task
    • How the AutoUpdate repository works
      • Configuring the repository list
    • How rolling back DAT files works
      • Rolling back DAT files
  • Excluding scan items
    • Specifying exclusions
    • How to use wildcards to specify scan items
  • Using scheduled tasks
    • Scheduling tasks
    • Configuring the task schedule
• Part II - Detection: Finding Threats
  • Scanning items on-access
    • On-access scanning and how it works
    • Scanning comparison: writing to disk vs. reading from disk
    • Scanning comparison: scanning all files vs. scanning default + additional file types
    • Script scanning and how it works
    • How Artemis works
    • Determine the number of scanning policies
    • How general and process settings are configured
      • Configuring general settings
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
        • VirusScan Console
      • Configuring process settings
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
        • VirusScan Console
        • Process setting tab options
      • Enabling on-network drives
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
        • VirusScan Console
  • Scanning items on-demand
    • On-demand scanning and how it works
    • On-demand scanning methods and how they are defined
    • How scanning of remote storage works
    • How scan deferral works
    • How system utilization works
    • Configuring on-demand scan tasks
      • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
      • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
      • VirusScan Console
      • Configuring on-demand scan tasks tabs
    • Configuring global system cache
      • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
      • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
      • VirusScan Console
  • Scanning email on-delivery and on-demand
    • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
    • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
    • VirusScan Console
    • On delivery email scan policies tab definitions
• Part III - Response: Handling Threats
  • Detections and responses
    • What happens when a detection occurs
    • System access point violations
    • Buffer overflow detections
    • Unwanted program detections
    • On-access scan detections
    • On-demand scan detections
    • Email scan detections
    • Quarantined items
      • Configuring the quarantine policy
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
        • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
        • VirusScan Console
      • Managing quarantined items
  • Configuring alerts and notifications
    • Configuring alerts
      • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
      • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
      • VirusScan Console
      • Alert policy tab configuration
  • Access queries and dashboards
  • Configuring emergency DATs
    • About emergency DATs
    • Downloading a SuperDAT file
    • Installing the SuperDAT files on an ePolicy Orchestrator repository
    • Installing the EXTRA.DAT file on a client system
• Part IV - Monitoring, Analyzing, and Fine-Tuning Your Protection
  • Monitoring activity in your environment
    • Tools for monitoring activity
      • Query and dashboard uses
      • Activity log uses
      • Running an example query
  • Analyzing your protection
    • The importance of analysis
    • Analyzing protection examples
      • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
      • ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
      • VirusScan Console
• Appendix
  • Configuring ePolicy Orchestrator server tasks
    • Configuring example server task
  • Using the command line with VirusScan Enterprise
    • On-demand scanning command-line options
    • Update task command-line options
  • Connecting to remote systems
    • Accessing remote systems with VirusScan Enterprise installed
  • Submit threat samples for analysis
  • Access the McAfee Labs Threat Library
  • Troubleshooting
    • Repairing the product installation
    • Viewing the on-access activity log file
    • Using the MER tool during troubleshooting
    • Disabling VirusScan Enterprise during troubleshooting
    • Suggested support and troubleshooting tools
    • Frequently asked questions