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Norman Virus
Control v5 for OS/2
Viruses will appear
in days to come, and businesses will unfortunately
be victimized. Be prepared to meet these challenges
in a professional way.
Norman Virus
Control v5 (NVC v5) is an anti-virus program that
protects your workstations and servers against
malicious software, also referred to as malware. The
most prevalent types of malware are viruses, worms,
and trojans. Previous versions of NVC have been
awarded numerous international prizes. The new
version is even better. In addition to a
user-friendlier, more attractive and intuitive
graphical interface, NVC v5 provides the
functionality and flexibility that consolidates
NVC's position as a state-of-the-art product in the
battle against virus attacks.
The single most
important task for an anti-virus application is to
keep computers virus-free. NVC v5 detects both known
and unknown viruses, including trojans and worms. In
the new version Norman has managed to expand its
renowned core technology; the scanning engine. When
infected files are detected, NVC isolates or removes
them immediately -before the destructive code is
activated.
Why NVCv5 for
OS/2?
NVCv5 for OS/2 is
specially developed and designed to fit the needs of
OS/2 users. Making it possible to configure and use
it in an effective and intuitive way. Most Antivirus
software for OS/2 is designed as for the Windows
world and thereby has not been made user friendly
for the OS/2 user.
Integration
It integrates it
self with the OS/2 and eCS WorkplaceShell in a way
that makes it very effective and easy to use. For
example if you right click on the C: drive icon on
the desktop you can directly select scanning.
Scanning
There is two ways
to scan for viruses, trojans, worms etc. One is the on-access
scanner. On-access scanning involves constant
monitoring of the file system on servers and
workstations. For an antivirus application, it's
imperative to detect and block a virus before it's
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.
The other way is to
use the on-demand scanner. This scanner is
used for manual scans of selected areas on your
machine. You can select entire drive(s), or certain
folders and subfolders-even specific files for
scanning.
Task editor
You can use the
Task editor to create task files for scans that you
wish to perform on a regular basis, or special scans
that you intend to run in certain situations. For
example, if you download files from the Internet to
designated areas, you can create a task file that
scans these areas only and run the task manually
after downloads. In addition, you can schedule the
task to run at a pre-selected time.
Administrators can create task files and distribute
them to all workstations in the network to ensure
consistent checking of areas that require special
attention.
Utilities
NVC Utilities is a
tool that presents an overview of the current state
of affairs for the NVC components on your PC. In
addition to viewing key information, you can change
certain elements by selecting some of the entries,
for example Task files. Other functions, like
Components, provide information only and cannot be
edited from the Utilities module.
Messages
Messaging is made
up from two components: Message routing and Message
handling.
Message routing allows administrators to select what
kind of messages that will be routed to other PCs
running NVC in the network. Message handling allows
users as well as administrators to select what kind
of messages that are displayed or kept locally. The
messaging functionality is an effective way of
keeping track of all activity related to NVC
components locally as well as in the network.
Updating NVC
Norman Internet
Update (NIU) is an integrated part of the product
and can be configured to regularly check for new and
updated files on Norman's product servers.
Theoretically, the entire product can be available
for downloading if the changes are extensive, while
previous versions only updated the scanning engine.
Equally important is the possibility of distributing
the updated program immediately to all workstations
in the network, and to all remote users upon their
next connection to the company server.
System
requirements
OS/2 Warp 4, OS/2
Warp Server, Workspace On-demand, and eComStation.
Java 1.1.8 is required for the Configuration editor,
Task editor and Utilities modules.
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