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ContentsIntroducing VirusScan Enterprise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Audience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Finding product documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Pre-Installation Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Preparation for installing the software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

System requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Product upgrade and preserving settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Options for preconfiguring, deploying, updating, and managing VirusScan Enterprise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Product license and performing an upgrade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Installing VirusScan Enterprise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Using the Setup utility to install the software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Using the command line to install the software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Installation scenarios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Installation options and properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Installing using an Administrative Installation Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Placing the product under ePolicy Orchestrator management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Migrating the ePolicy Orchestrator policies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Post-Installation Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Testing your installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Testing for malware detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Testing for potentially unwanted programs detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Location of installed files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Location of 32-bit operating system installed files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Location of 64-bit operating system installed files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Maintenance Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Modifying installed features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Using the Setup utility to modify installed features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Using the command line to modify installed features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Reinstalling or repairing program files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Using the Setup utility to reinstall or repair program files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

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Using the console to reinstall or repair program files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using the command line to reinstall or repair program files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Removing program files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Using the Setup utility to remove program files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Using the command line to remove program files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Using the Add/Remove Programs utility to remove program files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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Contents

Introducing VirusScan EnterpriseMcAfee VirusScan Enterprise software protects your system from viruses, worms, Trojanhorses, and potentially unwanted code and programs.

This guide provides system requirements for VirusScan Enterprise software, and informationabout installing it as a standalone and as a managed product, as well as modifying, repairing,removing, and reinstalling the software.

Contents

Audience

Conventions

Finding product documentation

AudienceMcAfee documentation is carefully researched and written for the target audience.

The information in this guide is intended primarily for:

Administrators People who implement and enforce the company's security program.

Users People who are responsible for configuring the product options on their system,or for updating the product on their systems.

ConventionsThis guide uses the following typographical conventions.

Title of a book, chapter, or topic; introduction of a new term; emphasis.Book title or Emphasis

Text that is strongly emphasized.Bold

Commands and other text that the user types; the path of a folder orprogram.

User input or Path

A code sample.Code

Words in the user interface including options, menus, buttons, and dialogboxes.

User interface

A live link to a topic or to a website.Hypertext blue

Additional information, like an alternate method of accessing an option.Note

Suggestions and recommendations.Tip

Valuable advice to protect your computer system, software installation,network, business, or data.

Important/Caution

Critical advice to prevent bodily harm when using a hardware product.Warning

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Finding product documentationMcAfee provides the information you need during each phase of product implementation, frominstalling to using and troubleshooting. After a product is released, information about the productis entered into the McAfee online KnowledgeBase.

1 Go to the McAfee Technical Support ServicePortal at http://mysupport.mcafee.com.

2 Under Self Service, access the type of information you need:

Do this...To access...

User Documentation 1 Click Product Documentation.