Complete list of features

Norman SandBox
Norman’s SandBox technology detects new and unknown computer viruses, including trojans and worms. Today, an email worm can infect tens of thousands of workstations in a matter of seconds. The antivirus vendors are expected to find the cure, update the virus definition files, and distribute these to its customers immediately. The need for speed is paramount. Norman’s SandBox is a virtual world where everything is simulated. An emulator provides an environment where possible virus infected executables “run" just as they would do on a real system. When execution stops, the SandBox is analyzed for changes. The SandBox is particularly tuned to find new email-, network- and peer-to-peer worms.

On-access scanner
On-access scanning involves constant monitoring of the file system on servers and workstations. For antivirus software, it is imperative to detect and block a computer virus before it is activated. Whenever a file is accessed in a read/write operation, or a program is executed, the On-access scanner is notified and scans the file automatically.

Like the On-demand scanner, NVC’s On-access scanner detects and repairs all types of malware. Whenever possible, an infected file is repaired before it 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 it is recommended that a strategy is established before this feature is configured. NVC provides guidelines in the program, help files, and documentation.

On-demand scanner
This scanner is used to manually scan selected areas of a machine. Entire drive(s), or certain folders and subfolders - even specific files - can be selected for scanning.

In networks, the system administrator can create scanning tasks to be executed on selected or on all workstations and servers in the organization. Tasks can be executed immediately, or scheduled for execution later, for example at fixed intervals. The On-demand scanner can use the Norman SandBox technology to further increase protection by detecting new and unknown malware before it can cause harm.
 

Integration
Norman Virus Control integrates itself with OS/2 and eCS WorkplaceShell in a way that makes it very effective and easy to use. For example: you can scan the C: drive simply by right-clicking the mouse button and selecting Norman Virus Control from the menu.
 

Automatic updates
Norman Internet Update (NIU) is an integrated part of NVC and can be configured to regularly check for new and updated files on Norman’s product servers. NIU provides complete updating and upgrading of the application software and virus definition files to ensure that the latest version of the software is always installed.

NIU employs incremental updates of virus definition files to keep the size of the updates as small as possible, thereby reducing download time.
 

Task editor
With the Task editor you can create task files for scans need to be performed on a regular basis, or special scans that need to be run in certain situations. For example, if files are downloaded from the Internet to designated areas, a task file can be created to scan these areas only, or run manually by the user after downloads have completed. In addition, the task can be scheduled to run at a pre-defined 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.

Utilities
NVC Utilities is a tool that presents an overview of the current state for the NVC components on your PC.
In addition to viewing key information, some elements can be changed by selecting some of the entries, for example Task files. Other functions, like Components, provide information only and cannot be edited from the Utilities module.

Decompression library
A new advanced decompression module has been developed to scan files that have been compressed with different archive programs. With this module NVC can now scan more than 30 archive types and variants like ZIP, TAR, RAR, ARJ, UUENCODE, ARC etc. Files that contain other files of different archive formats will also be scanned to further increase security. In addition, if malware is found within an archived file, NVC will - if possible - clean the infection and repack the file (only valid for some formats).
 

Messaging
Messaging is made up from two components: Message routing and Message handling.
Message routing allows administrators to select what kind of messages that will be routed to other PCs running NVC in the network.
Message handling allows users as well as administrators to select what kind of messages that are displayed or kept locally.

The messaging functionality is an effective way of keeping track of all activity related to NVC components locally as well as in the network.
 

Messaging module for administrators
Administrators can configure which incidents that should trigger messages to be sent as emails or SMS to selected receivers. In networks using SNMP you can also configure NVC to send messages to your preferred administration tool.