McAfee Announces Enhanced Anti-Virus Protection With McAfee Virex for the Apple

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE), the leading provider of intrusion prevention solutions, today announced the availability of McAfee Virex 7.5 for Macintosh, offering small to large businesses enhanced anti-virus protection for their Macintosh OS X platform and Macintosh Power PC. With McAfee Virex, corporate users can implement real-time prevention of Mac, PC and UNIX viruses, worms, Trojans and other malicious code threats.

McAfee Virex utilizes the award-winning McAfee scan engine for complete, proactive anti-virus protection for Macintosh systems, stopping every type of virus and malicious code threat, including hidden threats buried in .ZIP and other compressed file types. McAfee Virex 7.5 builds on earlier McAfee versions developed for the Macintosh, incorporating enhanced security features, including real time "on access" scanning, automatic eUpdate functionality, scheduling options for On Demand scans and updating and the latest McAfee anti-virus scan engine. In addition, McAfee Virex employs generic detection, which involves using a single virus definition to detect and clean many variants of the same virus family. This is especially useful today, when a successful threat can be followed by a host of variants.

"While Macintosh's are immune to infections from Windows worms like Bagle, Netsky and MyDoom, which exploit security flaws in Windows operating systems and software applications, they are not immune to PC and UNIX threats that can spread to Macintosh systems on the network via email or network sharing," said John Bedrick, group product marketing manager for systems security at McAfee. "With McAfee Virex, Macintosh users can implement proactive virus protection to keep them secure in heterogeneous work environments."

McAfee Virex uses Apple's Mac OS X user-interface, offering a familiar screen for convenient on-demand scanning. Easy one-click updating ensures virus protection is always current with the latest updates for full compliance and protection against today's advanced threats. McAfee Virex is also extremely reliable and accurate, performing scans without false alarms, which can cost money and undermine confidence in a company's anti-virus defenses.

Availability: McAfee Virex is available immediately through McAfee and its channel partners. For more information please visit http://www.mcafee.com or call 888-VIRUS-NO.

About McAfee, Inc.: With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., McAfee, Inc. creates best-of-breed computer security solutions that prevent intrusions on networks and protect computer systems from the next generation of blended attacks and threats. McAfee's customers span large enterprises, governments, small and medium sized businesses, and consumers. For more information, McAfee, Inc. can be reached at 972-963-8000 or on the Internet at http://www.mcafee.com/ .