Your anti-virus software is only as good as the last virus outbreak. Therefore, updating, detection, and policy enforcement play a key role in meeting the latest threats and protecting your networks. The challenge is not just having anti-virus software deployed on your company's computer systems, but ensuring your network is protected when a new virus outbreak occurs and distributing anti-virus updates the instant they become available.

SonicWALL Complete Anti-Virus is a distributed, gateway-enforced solution that ensures always-on, always-updated anti-virus software for every client on your network, while at the same time providing new levels of flexibility for your network servers. With SonicWALL active anti-virus protection, no employee or partner can access the Internet without the latest updates.

SonicWALL Complete Anti-Virus combines SonicWALL's patent-pending Network Anti-Virus with the award-winning McAfee NetShield and GroupShield applications for Windows-based File, Print and Exchange servers. It provides your organization with a highly automated and enforced solution at the desktop, eliminating machine-by-machine anti-virus deployment. By delivering very fast time-to-response during rapid virus outbreaks, it reduces the time and costs associated with administering an anti-virus policy throughout your entire network.

Automatic updates
SonicWALL automates deployment of anti-virus signature and software updates for all server products, ensuring that every servers has the latest software and signatures as soon as they are available. There is no time-consuming manual intervention required, no software to download, not websites to check. It all happens automatically, day or night. Protection is delivered faster, and there is therefore less chance of a new, "zero-day" virus getting through because a server’s virus signatures or software are not up-to-date.

Layered protection
SonicWALL’s Client/Server service is part of SonicWALL’s layered approach to security. This approach ensures that every touch point is protected: Gateways, Servers, and Workstations. The SonicWALL's endpoint solutions work in conjunction with gateway protection to create the most comprehensive level of protection available.

Features and Benefits

Always on, automatic virus protection keeps end-user productivity high and security management low by providing daily anti-virus and anti-spyware updates transparently to all desktops and file servers using McAfee’s Rumor technology.

Spyware protection scans and blocks the installation of a comprehensive array of spyware programs on desktops and laptops before they transmit confidential data, providing greater desktop security and performance.

Automated anti-virus and anti-spyware client enforcement verifi es that every computer accessing the network has the most recent version of anti-virus and anti-spyware software installed and active, eliminating the costs commonly associated with desktop anti-virus and anti-spyware policy management.

Centralized desktop firewall safeguards desktops with integrated firewall protection, blocking unwanted Internet access to or from the computer.

Automated installation and deployment minimizes administrative overhead by automating machine-by-machine anti-virus and anti-spyware deployment and policy enforcement over the entire network.

License sharing enables organizations with distributed networks of multiple SonicWALL security appliances to allocate Enforced Client Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware licenses to meet changing conditions.

On-demand scanning provides administrators with the customization flexibility to choose when additional scans are performed and how frequently the software checks for anti-virus and anti-spyware updates.

Comprehensive Web-based reporting provides information about the state of each user, historical data on past infections and detections, and information on each computer’s operating system and browser version.

 

Comprehensive Anti-Virus Reporting

SonicWALL Client/Server Anti-Virus Suite delivers Web-based reports that give you a real-time view of your network, anti-virus and anti-spyware environment. Reports detail enterprise-wide information such as coverage status summary, machines updated, viruses cleaned, spyware detected, deleted and quarantined, as well as the currency of .DAT, engine and product versions. On-demand and scheduled reports are available 24/7 and can be accessed through the Web interface of the SonicWALL appliance.

Reports ■ Systems out-of-date ■ Systems up-to-date ■ Viruses found and spyware detected ■ Most infected machines ■ Detailed system reporting of each machine

Comparison of SonicWALL Endpoint Security: Anti-Virus
USAGE	Enforced Client AV/SPY	Client/Server AV Suite
Type	Workstations Only	Workstations & Servers
License Sizes	Licenses from 5 to 1000+ Users	Licenses from 5 to 1000+ Users
KEY FEATURES:	Enforced Client AV/SPY	Client/Server AV Suite
Anti-Virus Protection
Anti-Spyware Protection - Client
Desktop Firewall Protection - Client
Automated Updates & Virus Signature Files
Automated Installation & Deployment - Client
Automated Enforcement at Gateway - Client
Stand-alone Client AV Mode1
One-click Remediation
Real-time 24/7 Reporting
Centralized Mgmt Reporting - Client
Policy-based Management - Client
Desktop & Laptop Protection
Server Protection
On-Access Scanning
On-Demand Scanning
All Media Source Protection: HDD, CD, DVD, Floppy, Flash Drives, iPods, etc
Interpretability with SonicWALL Network Security Appliances (TZ, PRO and CSM series)
OS SUPPORT	Enforced Client AV/SPY	Client/Server AV Suite
Workstation OS Support	Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista	Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Server OS Support	N/A	Windows 2000 Server (Standard, Small Business, Advanced, DataCenter), Windows 2003 Server (Standard, Enterprise, Web Edition, Small Business)
Exchange Server Support	N/A	Microsoft Exchange 2000, Small Business 2000, Exchange 2003, Small Business 2003, Exchange 2007