Product guide

Connecting to remote systems
You can connect to remote systems with VirusScan Enterprise installed to perform operations
such as modifying, scheduling scanning, update tasks, or enabling and disabling the on-access
scanner on a remote system.
NOTE: If you do not have administrator rights to connect to the remote system, you receive
an Insufficient user rights access denied message.
When you start the VirusScan Remote Console, the name of the system you are connected
to appears in the console title bar. If you have not connected to a system elsewhere on the
network, the title bar does not show the name of your local system. When you open any task’s
properties dialog box from a remote console, the system name is displayed in the properties
dialog box title bar.
You can open multiple remote consoles. When you close the Connect to Remote Computer
dialog box, the connection to the remote system also closes.
Accessing remote systems with VirusScan Enterprise installed
To connect to remote systems that you want to administer, with VirusScan Enterprise installed,
use Open Remote Console on the VirusScan Console.
Task
For option definitions, click Help in the interface.
1 From the Tools menu on the VirusScan Enterprise 8.8 Console, select Open Remote
Console.
2 Under Connect to computer, type the name of the system that you want to administer,
and select a system from the list, or click Browse to locate the system on the network.
NOTE: If environmental variables are used while configuring the path name of the file or
folder for a remote task, be sure that the environmental variable exists on the remote
system. The VirusScan Enterprise 8.8 Console cannot validate environmental variables on
the remote system.
3 Click OK to make a connection attempt to the destination system.
When you connect to the remote system:
• The title bar changes to display that system’s name.
• The console reads the remote system's registry and displays the tasks of the remote
system.
• You can add, delete, or reconfigure tasks for the remote system.
Submit threat samples for analysis
If you find a potential threat that is not being detected, or if the scanner detects something
that you think it should not detect as a threat, with the current DAT file, you can submit a
sample of the threat to McAfee Labs through the WebImmune. McAfee Labs analyzes the sample
and considers it for inclusion, or exclusion in the next DAT file.
You can submit a sample to McAfee Labs in three ways, by accessing the web site WebImmune,
by email, or by standard mail.
Appendix
Connecting to remote systems
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