Norman Virus Control

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ITPro reviews Norman Virus Control (June 2006)

Norman Virus Control is a collection of antivirus software applications and utilities that protect your workstations, servers and gateways against malicious software. The most prevalent types of malware are computer viruses, worms, and trojans.

Every administrator knows how important it is to have software that is easy to install, deploy, update, configure, maintain, and manage. A product that is difficult to install and manage is unlikely to succeed in today’s market. Norman Virus Control. NVC is just as easy to install and administer in a small LAN as it is in an enterprise WAN.

On-access and On-demand scanning of files
Norman SandBox - revolutionary way to detect new and unknown malware
Automatic updates over the Internet - complete product and incremental updates of definition files

System requirements

Any Pentium class PC running Windows 95/98/Me or Windows NT/2000/2003/Vista.
For Windows 95 Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later is required.
For Windows NT Service Pack 4 or later is required.

Downloads

Type	Title	Comment	Usage
	Register for a trial version		Form
	Norman Virus Control - download		Software
	Norman Virus Control - user manuals		User manual
	Norman Sandbox technology		Whitepaper

Detailed product information

On-access scanner

On-access scanning involves constant monitoring of the file system on servers and workstations. For an antivirus application, it is imperative to detect and block a computer virus before it is activated. Whenever a file is accessed in a read/write operation, or a program is executed, the On-access scanner is notified and scans the file on the fly.

On-demand scanner

This scanner is used for manual scans of selected areas on a machine. Entire drive(s), or certain folders and subfolders - even specific files - can be selected for scanning.

In networks, the system administrator can create scanning tasks to be executed on selected, or on all workstations and servers in the organization. Tasks can be executed immediately, or scheduled for execution later, for example at fixed intervals.

Norman Internet Protection

The Norman Internet Protection module scans incoming and outgoing email as well as files downloaded from newsgroups. To reduce the risk of virus infection, we have added file attachment blocking. The user can set up rules for attachment blocking according to their security policy.

Norman Interne Protection hooks all applications using Winsock, and scans all traffic on ports for POP3, SMTP, and NNTP.

This functionality is not available for Windows Vista 64 bits operating system.

Automatic updates

Norman Internet Update is an integrated part of Norman Virus Control and can be configured to regularly check for new and updated files on Norman’s product servers. Norman Internet Update provides complete updating and upgrading of the application software and virus definition files to ensure that the latest version of the software is always installed.

Messaging module for administrators

Administrators can configure which incidents that should trigger messages to be sent as email or SMS to selected receivers. In networks using SNMP you can also configure NVC to send messages to a preferred administration tool.

Norman Management tool - NDesk

NDesk is a tool for administering network installations of Norman Virus Control from a single workstation, including remote installation to the server platform. NDesk can administer and monitor worlstation computers with Norman Virus Control installed.

Based on the conditions above, the primary functions that NDesk offers are e.g:

Norman Virus Control remote installation on the server platform
Monitor Norman Virus Control installations on all Windows computers
Norman Virus Control Configuration management
Remotely triggered scan
Remotely triggered updates
Printing of machine overview lists

Proactive antivirus protection

Unique proactive technology to provide customers with the best possible protection against malicious software

This powerful and unmatched security solution utilizes Norman DNA Matching, Norman Exploit Detection and Norman SandBox®, the world renowned technology to protect businesses.

Norman SandBox® is a revolutionary way to detect new and unknown malware in a proactive way. It is a virtual environment where programs may perform in safe surroundings without interferring with the real processes, program files and network environment. If a program performs actions that the SandBox regards as suspicious, the program is "tagged" as a malicious program.

Norman DNA Matching is a proactive technology and method for identifying the viral profile of all kinds of malicious programs. Inherited or reused programming codes are recognized in new malware, providing unique protection against threats. New malware that looks like a mutation of a previously known malware, is most probably malware of the same family and identified as malicious by Norman DNA Matching.

Norman Exploit Detection is a technology for detecting malware exploiting vulnerabilities in widely used document types like, OLE2 (Office documents), MDB (Access), WMF (Windows Media File), JPEG (pictures), RIFF (Windows media meta-format) and SWF (Flash). The technology allows for more to be added whenever they are being abused by malware. Norman Exploit Detection does not depend of awareness and analysis of a particular vulnerability.

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