- Branche: Software
- Number of terms: 9143
- Number of blossaries: 1
- Company Profile:
The issuance of security certificates through an office, bureau, or service.
Industry:Internet
A type of Trojan used specifically to steal a user’s password.
Industry:Internet
A personal computer or workstation designed to reside on or under a desktop.
Industry:Internet
A McAfee utility that configures alerts for various notification methods, such as a pager message or email. Alert Manager allows you to select specific events, such as virus detection, to trigger alert messages.
Industry:Internet
This infection method is used by a malware author to hide the author’s presence, particularly from desktop firewalls. The malware author codes the threat to inject an additional DLL into an existing, already-running application, making any requests to access the disk or network appear as if the original application were making the request.
Industry:Internet
The process of measuring risk and organizational exposure to vulnerabilities, and tracking compliance over time.
Industry:Internet
A type of spam specific to instant messaging. The messages can be simple unsolicited ads or fraudulent phishing mail.
Industry:Internet
Software or a device that monitors network traffic and prevents attacks on a network or system. McAfee Network Security Platform (formerly McAfee IntruShield) is one example.
Industry:Internet
Identifies a workstation on a TCP/IP network and specifies routing information. Each workstation on a network has a unique IP address, which consists of the network ID plus a unique host ID assigned by the network administrator. This address is usually represented in dot or decimal notation, with the decimal values separated by a period (for example, 123. 45. 6. 24 as in IPv4).
Industry:Internet
A type of on-access scanning (made possible within Microsoft Exchange by Microsoft VS API2) that does not scan all files on access, reducing the scanner’s workload when it is busy. It scans databases where it was enabled, such as Mailbox store and Public Folder store. In addition, it automatically scans files and documents as they are created, opened, closed, or executed.
Industry:Internet
