DTAG008 – The antivirus signature file age must not exceed 7 days.
Details Antivirus signature files are updated almost daily by antivirus software vendors. These files are made available to antivirus clients...
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DISA McAfee VirusScan 8.8 Local Client STIG V5R16
DTAM001 – McAfee VirusScan On-Access Scanner General Settings must be configured to enable on-access scanning at system startup.
Details For Antivirus software to be effective, it must be running at all times, beginning from the point of the...DTAM002 – McAfee VirusScan On-Access Scanner General Settings must be configured to scan boot sectors.
Details Boot sector viruses will install into the boot sector of a system, ensuring that they will execute when the...DTAM003 – McAfee VirusScan On-Access Scanner General Settings must be configured to scan floppy during shutdown.
Details Computer viruses in the early days of personal computing were almost exclusively passed around by floppy disks. Floppy disks...DTAM004 – McAfee VirusScan On-Access Scanner General Settings must be configured to notify local users when detections occur.
Details An effective awareness program explains proper rules of behavior for use of an organization’s IT systems and information. Accordingly,...DTAM005 – McAfee VirusScan On-Access Scanner General Settings must be configured to prevent users from removing messages from the list.
Details Good incident response analysis includes reviewing all logs and alerts on the system reporting the infection. If users were...DTAM009 – McAfee VirusScan On-Access Scanner General Settings must be configured to log the scan sessions.
Details Log management is essential to ensuring that computer security records are stored in sufficient detail for an appropriate period...DTAM010 – McAfee VirusScan On-Access Scanner General Settings log file size must be limited to at least 10MB (bLimitSize)
Details While logging is imperative to forensic analysis, logs could grow to the point of impacting disk space on the...DTAM010 – McAfee VirusScan On-Access Scanner General Settings log file size must be limited to at least 10MB (dwMaxLogSizeMB)
Details While logging is imperative to forensic analysis, logs could grow to the point of impacting disk space on the...DTAM012 – McAfee VirusScan On-Access Scanner General Settings must be configured to log the session summary.
Details Log management is essential to ensuring computer security records are stored in sufficient detail for an appropriate period of...