LANDesk® Antivirus

Every enterprise needs to protect data and keep endpoint systems operating properly. But paying for, installing, administering, and training on different products for endpoint security, patch management, virus protection, and systems management can impact your bottom line, try the patience of IT staff, and jeopardize the enterprise’s ability to thrive and outpace the competition.

LANDesk^® Antivirus extends the power of LANDesk^® Management Suite and LANDesk^® Security Suite to deliver enterprise-ready malware and rootkit detection from the same console and vendor you rely on for systems and security management—and for a lower investment than many competitive solutions. Now you can affordably extend world-class protection to your endpoints with little or no new infrastructure, less training, and fewer vendors and hassles to deal with.

LANDesk Antivirus helps you:

• Implement world-class, up-to-date protection against viruses, trojans, worms, spyware, adware, rootkits, bootkits, keyloggers, screen-capture malware, botnets, zero-day attacks, drive-by download infections, and other malicious vectors
• Use advanced heuristics to detect significant numbers of new viruses and malware missed by the “big three” antivirus solutions
• Protect critical enterprise data and user productivity by identifying, reducing, and mitigating virus outbreak risks in real time
• Give IT complete control to align antivirus settings with corporate policies, as well as prevent user error and intervention
• Empower IT and executives with a quick, easy way to see which systems are protected or vulnerable, and how virus protection is progressing over time
• Protect against “false positives” with the ability to “pilot” new signatures with key users before automatically rolling them out to the rest of the organization.
• Preserve bandwidth and reduce network traffic by downloading signature files through patented LANDesk® Peer Download™ technology

Simple, Centralized Control Right where it Belongs—in IT

LANDesk Antivirus places your IT staff in the driver’s seat for the most efficient validation, distribution, and enforcement of antivirus policies and definition files. It enables your enterprise to respond to new threats as quickly as they’re discovered so you protect invaluable corporate resources and critical data. You choose the level of user interaction permitted—including, for example, role-based permissions to selected features, which allows users to initiate scans while preventing them from reconfiguring or disabling the user agent. With total IT control over validation, updates, scanning schedules, user permissions, and more, you can rest assured that your antivirus policies are enforced.

Reduce Costs and Complexity

When IT takes full control of antivirus management, you spend less time and money on IT training and significantly reduce the need to train users on security procedures. Moreover, you also save time and money simply because you don’t devote so much time fixing what users break. You also reduce complexity, with only a single agent on each network endpoint and a single point for monitoring and managing antivirus activities. Plus, you increase uptime, efficiency, and productivity in the IT department and the organization at large.

Available Microsoft® Exchange Server Protection

LANDesk® Antivirus – Mail Server adds another protective layer to endpoint security by safeguarding your corporate mail servers against external threats and preventing virus outbreaks within corporate networks. It defends mailboxes, public folders, and relayed e-mail located on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 against malicious programs with real-time scanning of all e-mail, including attachments, OLE objects, and attached messages. Highlights of LANDesk Antivirus – Mail Server include:

• Scanning of e-mail databases and old messages—Scans messages received prior to installing the program and re-scans messages in the background after antivirus databases are updated
• Protection from potentially hostile software—Protects the mail server from potentially hostile software, including remote monitoring and control programs (which are not categorized as malicious) and programs that use the modem to automatically dial premium numbers
• Automatic antivirus database updates—Downloads frequent updates of antivirus databases and program components from dedicated servers