What is Norman Virus Control:

Norman Virus Control (NVC) is a collection of anti-virus programs and utilities that protects your workstations and servers against malicious software. The most prevalent types of malware are viruses, worms, and trojans.

The single most important task for an anti-virus application is to keep computers free from viruses. Norman Virus Control is built around the advanced core technologies of Norman's Scanning Engine, which accurately detects known and unknown viruses, worms and trojans. When infected files are detected, NVC cleans, isolates or deletes them immediately -before the destructive code is activated. Many different programs are involved in this. Some of the most important are described below.

There are three different types of virus scanners in NVC. In addition to the two scanners described below, there is a command line scanner for use from DOS.

ON-DEMAND SCANNER: This scanner is used for scans initiated by the user. You can select entire drives, certain folders and subfolders or even specific files for scanning. You decide which file system objects you wish to check and simply right-click the mouse button and select Norman Virus Control from the pop-up menu. In networks, the system administrator can create scanning tasks to be executed by specific or all workstations and servers in the organization. Tasks can be executed immediately or scheduled for execution later, for example on fixed intervals.

ON-ACCESS SCANNER: For an anti-virus application, it is imperative to detect and block a virus before it is activated. On-access scanning involves constant monitoring of the file system on servers and workstations. Whenever a program accesses a file, or an attempt is done to execute a program, the On-access scanner intercepts and scans the file first. Whenever possible, an infected file is repaired before the file is handed over to the application. If repair fails, NVC denies access to the infected file. There are a number of configuration options for the On-access scanner, and in general it is a good idea to decide on a strategy when you configure this feature. NVC provides guidelines in the program, help files, and documentation.

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 preselected 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.

	MESSAGES: The messaging functionality is an effective way of keeping track of all activity related to NVC components locally as well as in the network. The message system allows users as well as administrators to select what kind of messages that are displayed or logged locally, and what kinds should be passed on to other machines in the network.

UPDATING NVC: Norman Internet Update is an integrated part of the product and can be configured to regularly check for and download new and updated files on Norman's product servers. The update module also handles the distribution to all workstations in the network.

These are some of the prominent functions in NVC. In addition, it features a series of other functions that will save time, work and costs for the IT-department.

Norman Virus Control Ver. 5.8:

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