America Online Offers Virus Protection to Members

America Online will make McAfee VirusScan Online available at no additional charge to its members. This makes America Online the first online service to offer comprehensive, automatically-updated anti-virus coverage as part of basic membership to both broadband and dial-up customers.





McAfee VirusScan Online will be included with AOL 9.0 Security Edition, the newest version of the AOL software, which was specifically designed to address online consumers' top safety and security concerns and will be released next month.

McAfee VirusScan Online offers comprehensive, PC-based protection against infection from peer-to-peer file sharing, Web site downloads, infected CD-ROMs and disks, multimedia files, and more. And because it is always on and automatically updated, McAfee VirusScan Online provides America Online members broad protection from known viruses, trojans, and worms, whether members are online or not.

Source: press release

See also:

• McAfee VirusScan for 3G Phones


• Threat Advisory: McAfee AVERT Places Risk Assessment at Medium on New W32/Bagle.az@MM Virus


• America Online Launches AOL 9.0 Security Edition

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