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February 23, 2014

McAfee Training

Information Security Architect

 Alan J. White, CISSP, CEH, GCIA

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 Agenda

• Product Overview

• Virus Scan

• Reports (Emailed or save as PDF)

• System Compliance Profiler

• Rogue System Detection

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February 23, 2014

News

• Recent Spyware incident

• News – McAfee flaw should have a patch

very soon.

• Virex does support Mac OS X, despite

 Apple no longer supporting the product,

however a patch is needed for 7.7 to

resolve an updating issue.

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February 23, 2014

Best Higher Education Virus

Website

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Support

• URI has site license for several McAfee

products, for both office and home use,

but not for any commercial use.

• Must use in accordance with McAfee

terms of agreement

 – http://www.uri.edu/virus/license.php 

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Support

• Method of support and contacts:Primary: Alan White [email protected] 874-4787Secondary: Tanya Roberts (Currently on maternityleave) [email protected] Tertiary: Mark Oliver [email protected] 874-4481

Information needed:- Issue- Product- Operating System and Patch Level (run winver.exe at

CMD prompt)- Any actions performed in troubleshooting

Free Information (FAQs, Documentation, etc.):http://knowledge.mcafee.com/ 

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Products

• Virus Scan

 – ‘This year, reviews give the edge to McAfee VirusScan 2006 over the

other industry leader, Norton Anti-Virus.’[1] 

 – Many features and very customizable

• Block non authorized SMTP programs, main note that URI has had to add

several programs for users to send email, most popular programs are

already included such as Thunderbird, Eudora, Outlook, etc.

• Change Daily scan time and frequency (Currently Daily)

• Change local repository (Currently URI, then McAfee)• Change how often to check for new virus definitions (Currently every few

hours)

[1] http://www.consumersearch.com/www/software/antivirus-software/index.html 

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Products

• Virus Scan

 – Disadvantage: System resource hog during

daily scans

 – Need to realize the any changes made on a

local machine are overridden every 5 minutes

by central policy

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February 23, 2014

Products

•  Anti-Spyware

 – Advantage is that it adds Approx. 500+

additional definitions for known spyware.

 – No additional CPU overhead for running two

separate products as with others (Ad-Aware,

Spyware, etc)

 – McAfee paid support for Q&A – Rated #1 by independent review:

• http://www.uri.edu/virus/app/spywarereview.pdf  

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Products

•  Anti-Phishing

 – Free tool for IE Browsers

 – Warns and blocks access to Spoofed

Websites (Picks up most, does miss some)

 – Note: A fake PayPal website looks the same

in IE as it does in Firefox

 – Download at: www.uri.edu/virus/tools  – Screen Shot:

http://www.uri.edu/virus/app/phishing.doc 

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Products

• Spam Submission Tool

 – Free tool to promote better SPAM filters, as

well as report Fake Phishing sites.

 – Disadvantage only works with Outlook

2000,XP,2003 (Not Outlook Express)

 – Download at: www.uri.edu/virus/tools 

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February 23, 2014

Products

• Stinger – Free tool that only runs when initiated and can only

detect about 50-60 Viruses

 – Disadvantage must be downloaded each time youuse as it will be out of date

 – Advantage is it is very fast as a ‘Seek and Destroy’Stand Alone Tool

 – Note: Big misconception that it has a complete list of

all viruses. It Doesn’t  – Download at: http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ or a bit out

of date www.uri.edu/virus/tools 

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February 23, 2014

Products

• SuperDat

 – Free package with all Virus/Spyware definitions

 – Note: Dats contain only the last few definitions and

Extra Dats are issued in between dats when URIdetects Brand New Viruses (which has happened

several times)

 – Note: Won’t install Spyware definitions is Anti-

Spyware is not installed – Download at:

http://www.mcafee.com/apps/downloads/security_upd

ates/superdat.asp or local at www.uri.edu/virus/tools 

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February 23, 2014

Products

• LinuxShield – Linux AV protection

 – Don’t be ‘too cool’ not to install 

 – Several Linux machines on campus would havedetected hackers installing malicious code and backdoor programs if used

 – This can be monitored and generate reports via ePoconsole

 – Note: Be sure to check and install patches – RPM and Source Code available

 – Download at: http://www.uri.edu/virus/linux.php 

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February 23, 2014

Products

• Virex

 – Available for OS X

 – Current Version 7.7 with Patch

 – This can be monitored and generate reports

via ePo console

 – The ePo agent is optional

 – Download at:http://www.uri.edu/virus/mac.php 

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February 23, 2014

Products

• PDA

 – Protection for Windows Pocket PC Only

 – URI has seen viruses on PDAs

 – Not much overhead, scans on ActiveSync or

on demand

 – Download at: http://www.uri.edu/virus/pda.php 

 – Screen shot:https://reader010.{domain}/reader010/html5/0619/ 

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February 23, 2014

Products

• Firewall

 – ePo Managed vs. Standalone

Managed allows an admin to control the Firewall rule

set on several machines at once remotely.Standalone only gets patches and IPS updates from

the ePo server, no policies.

Managed on default install, does not allow user to makerule changes, hides the icon, and has set of normally

needed Microsoft ports blocked.

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Products

• Firewall

 – Several Features

• Block IPs, Protocols, Ports, Programs, DNS

Names (very granular rules)• Great logs, must choose activity to log, can change

location

• Includes several Buffer overflow attempt definitions

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Firewall Managed

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Products

• Command Line Scanners

 – Available for Windows and many flavors of

Linux

 – Advantage: No install just copy and run from

cmd prompt

 – Example used on a URI email server:

• uvscan --noboot --secure -rv --summary --mime<directory>.

 – Download at: www.uri.edu/virus/tools 

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ePo Console

• Policy Control based on IP, Workgroup,Domain, Computer Name

• Policies

• Note: ePo console has to be at samepatch level as sever, so each major patchrelease requires a local patch….can not

be applied automatically or remotely• Same applies to McAfee Firewall ref.

patches

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ePo Agent

• Check ePo agent http://MachineIP:8081

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Virus Scan Control

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Firewall

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Rouge System Detection

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Virus Type Report

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ePo Console

To Manually make a computer check for new policy:

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February 23, 2014

Virex ePo

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Custom Blocking of

Programs

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Coming Soon

• NAC – Network access control

 – http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/product

s/network_access_control/index.html 

• HIPS – Replace McAfee Firewall with Host

Intrusion Prevention

 – http://www.mcafee.com/us/local_content/data

sheets/partners/ds_hips.pdf  

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February 23 2014

Questions

• Download Copy of Presentation:

www.uri.edu/virus/app/mcafee.ppt