LANDesk® Antivirus Key Features

World-Class Antivirus Protection and Scanning

• Access world-class enterprise-ready antivirus capabilities and enforce real-time virus protection.
• Control pattern file and engine updates with scheduled scans to targeted systems, urgent “scan now” capabilities and more.
• Prestage pattern file updates to a group of pilot or test computers for as long as you like before rolling the file out to your entire organization.
• Allow users to launch antivirus scans, while retaining central control to prevent them from defeating automatic scans.
• Protect your systems from infected e-mails with the Outlook plug-in.

Centralize Configuration and Management

• Lock down the end-user agent to prevent unauthorized changes.
• Use role-based administration to grant privileges for adding, deleting or changing configuration of the LANDesk® Antivirus core and client settings.
• Align antivirus management with your corporate policies, with full, flexible control over who can deploy the agent, to which devices and how it is configured on each device.

Easily Validate and Deploy Virus Definition Files

• Rapidly and selectively deploy new virus definition files to a pilot group, while delaying deployment to the rest of the network until the files are validated.
• Easily define members of the pilot group as part of the configuration, automating the correct distribution of files for each rollout.
• Roll out virus definition files in phases, minimizing the risk that a newly deployed file will have unintended effects on network resources or users.
• Schedule automatic updates to virus definition files, controlling which versions are approved, when they are deployed and how they are configured.
• Grant end-users the ability to launch antivirus updates, if needed; you control whether they can access only your approved updates or live updates directly from LANDesk® Updates.
• Roll back to previous virus definition files in the event that a new file causes problems.

File Quarantine

• Encrypt and quarantine suspicious files and known infections that can’t be immediately cleaned.
• Provide optional view-only access to the quarantine folder, so end users can see what’s there but can’t open a suspect file and risk infection.
• Automatically scan quarantined files when new virus definition files are released, returning successfully cleaned files to active use.
• Automatically back up cleaned files in case of file corruption that requires further remediation.
• Customize your solution for detecting, trapping and mitigating potential viruses—from vigilant and methodical to rapid, hands-off control.

Reporting and Alerts

• Receive an alert by e-mail, pager or another preferred method whenever a machine can’t be automatically cleaned.
• Gain granular control over alerts regarding actions for quarantine and clean and suspicious content.
• Create custom queries and reports that combine inventory with antivirus and configuration information.
• Identify computers that are infected, haven’t been recently scanned for antivirus or that have outdated virus definition files.
• Provide end-user notification of virus scanning and removal processes.
• Report antivirus activities and history to learn what resources are vulnerable and what viruses are being detected.
• Use LANDesk® Antivirus reports to identify and mitigate risks, as well as to educate users about activities that could lead to infection.

LANDesk® Executive Dashboard

• Access a simple graphical dashboard to identify virus outbreaks in real-time, as well as to chart virus control activities over time.
• Easily demonstrate IT’s progress and value to executive staff.
• Gauge the percentage of computers with up-to-date virus definitions and with real-time antivirus enabled at a glance.

Antivirus Enforcement of Third-Party Solutions

• Manage antivirus solutions from McAfee, Norton, Sophos, Symantec and Trend-Micro using the same console.