| Solution: | The following new features appear in this release of the product:
- POP3 and SMTP Internet email scanning
Lets you configure Symantec AntiVirus clients to scan email body text and attachments that are transported using the POP3 or SMTP protocols. The ports scanned for POP3 and SMTP traffic are configurable.
- Outbound email heuristics scanning
Lets you enable outbound email heuristics scanning, which uses Bloodhound Virus Detection to identify potential threats contained in outgoing messages. This feature helps prevent the spread of threats such as worms that use email clients to replicate and distribute themselves across a network.
- Windows Installer (.msi) client and server installations
Lets you install Symantec AntiVirus clients and servers using Windows Installer technology to support MSI-based installation and deployment.
- Deployment of installations without granting administrator rights on the target computer
Lets you install Symantec AntiVirus from the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) using Elevated Privileges, rather than granting administrative privileges to the user on the target computer.
- Auto-Protect
Replaces and scans faster than Realtime File Protection. Auto-Protect can be loaded on system startup, and then unloaded on system shutdown to help protect against viruses.
- In-memory threat scanning
Lets you scan running processes to identify and handle threats that are loaded into memory.
- Threat Tracer
Lets you identify, by IP address and NetBIOS name, the source of network share-based virus infections on computers that are running Windows NT-based operating systems.
- Forced LiveUpdate for Symantec AntiVirus clients
Provides a way to update virus definitions files when clients on which LiveUpdate is installed are using outdated files.
- Expanded threat detection
Scans for new threats in the following categories: Spyware, Adware, Dialers, Joke Programs, Remote Access programs, Hack Tools, and Trackware. Other threats that do not meet these category requirements are included in the Security Risks category. For more information please read the document Scanning for expanded threats with Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.x.
- Moving clients between servers
Lets you move clients from one parent server to another using a drag-and-drop operation.
- Symantec VPN Sentry
Prevents users with nonsecure computers from connecting to a corporate network through a VPN connection and ensures that a computer that is attempting to connect is compliant with the corporate security policy. For a list of supported VPN clients, read the document VPN clients supported by SymSentry.
- Log forwarding
Lets you select the events that clients forward to their parent servers and that secondary servers forward to primary servers.
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