VirusScan® Enterprise software version 8.7i Installation Guide | |
| Getting product software and documentation |
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Getting product software and documentation
Get the VirusScan Enterprise software and documentation from one of these locations:
The product CD.
The McAfee download site at: https://secure.nai.com/us/forms/downloads/upgrades/login.asp
Logon credentials are required to download products from this website.
Reviewing release notes
Review the release notes, README.TXT, to identify last minute changes or known issues.
Verifying installation rights
Verify that you have local administrator rights for the computer where you plan to install VirusScan Enterprise.
Preserving settings during product upgrade
If you are installing VirusScan Enterprise on a computer with an earlier version of VirusScan Enterprise, you can preserving settings from the earlier version.
Configuration settings for saved tasks.
Exclusions settings.
Access protection rules are preserved using this logic:
1 The current VirusScan Enterprise rules are read from the registry.
2Each of the local VirusScan Enterprise rules are compared against all of the VirusScan Enterprise 8.0 default rules.
3If no exact match is found when comparing local rules to the default rules, then the rule is added to the list of rules to preserve.
4For port blocking rules, if the local rule differs from the default rule only in its inclusions, then the rule is placed in a separate list of rules to be merged with the equivalent VirusScan Enterprise 8.7i rules.
5The white list for each of the port rules, from Step 4, is merged with the white list of the equivalent VirusScan Enterprise 8.7i rule, and a newly formed rule is written to the registry for use by VirusScan Enterprise 8.7i.
6The modified default rules, if any from Step 3, are converted to the new VirusScan Enterprise 8.7i rule format and written to the registry. These preserved rules are included in the
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