Email and newsgroup scanning
Norman SandBox
Real-time scanning
On-demand scanner
Automatic updates
Task editor
Utilities
Decompression library
Supported operating systems

Complete list of features

Email and newsgroup scanning
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NVC scans all in- and outgoing emails as well as postings to and from newsgroups to ensure that they do not contain malware of any kind. In addition, attachments can be blocked based on file extension or specific file name to further increase security. The email scanning feature works with most email programs currently available.

NIP hooks all applications using winsock, and scans all traffic on ports for POP3, SMTP and NNTP. Norman Internet Protection (NIP) minimizes the threat from both new and existing email worms with both the best in virus scanning and plain attachment blocking. We recommended that Norman’s SandBox is enabled to increase protection against known and unknown malware.

Norman SandBox
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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.
 

Real-time scanning
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On-access scanning involves constant monitoring of the file system on the 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. If a computer virus is found the following options are available:

• clean

• remove

• warn only

• ignore

On-demand scanner
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This scanner is used for manual scans of selected areas on a machine. Entire drive(s) can be selected for scanning, or just certain folders and subfolders - even specific files. For example, any object in Windows Explorer can be selected and scanned by right-clicking the mouse button and selecting Norman Virus Control from the menu. Tasks can be executed immediately, or scheduled for execution later, for example at fixed intervals. The On-demand scanner can use Norman’s SandBox technology to further enhance virus protection by detecting unknown malware before it can cause harm.

Automatic updates
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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
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With the Task editor you can create task files for scans that 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.

Utilities
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Certain elements can be changed by selecting some of the entries, for example Task files. You can also manually delete, restore or save files that are placed in the quarantine from the Utilities module.

Decompression library
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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, PAK, ARC JZ 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).
 

Supported operating systems
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Norman Virus Control version 5 supports these operating systems:

• Windows 95

• Windows 98

• Wndows Me

• Windows NT

• Windows 2000

• Windows 2003

• Windows XP

• OS/2

• Linux