Antivirus information

University-owned computers

The University of Melbourne has a bulk licensing agreement with McAfee allowing the use of McAfee Enterprise Active Virus Defense (AVD) for Windows and McAfee Virex for Macintosh. This agreement covers University-owned computers and runs until the end of 2009. Both products are available for download from the Softdist server by authorised account holders.

Staff and student privately-owned computers

The University suggests using avast! 4 Home Edition for Windows computers and ClamXav for Apple Macintoshes. Both programs are free to download and the Service Desk provides technical support for their use.

While ClamXav is licensed under the GPL and may be installed on any computer and used for any purpose, avast! 4 home edition can only be used for home and non-commercial use and it cannot be installed on any University-owned computers.

• Guide to installing avast! 4 Home Edition
• Guide to installing and configuring ClamXav

ePO service

During the first quarter of 2006, Information Services piloted a McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) service. ePO allows for:

• enforcement of antivirus protection and central deployment of virus DATs, engines, service packs, hotfixes and patches.
• detection and reporting of non-compliant or unprotected systems
• reporting on the scope of virus infection and removal
• Microsoft patch compliance auditing and rollout
• centralised monitoring and configuration of security and antivirus policies with administration delegated to local administrators

If you are interested in more information about the pilot program or the full ePO service, please contact the Service Desk on x40888.