 Release Notes for McAfee(R) Anti-Virus Software
              Engine-only Update
               Version 5.3.00
       Copyright (C) 1992-2008 McAfee, Inc.
              All Rights Reserved


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- Engine Version:    5300

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Thank you for using McAfee anti-virus software.
This file contains important information
regarding this release. We strongly recommend
that you read the entire document.

Please ensure that you update the DAT files on your 
computer to the latest version.

    IMPORTANT:
    McAfee strongly recommends that you use any
    pre-release software (alpha, beta or release
    candidate) in a test environment only.
    Pre-release software should not be installed in
    a production environment.

    McAfee does not support automatic upgrading of a
    pre-release version of the software. To upgrade
    to a later beta release, a release candidate, or
    a production release of the software, you must
    first uninstall the existing version of the 
    software.


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WHAT'S IN THIS FILE

-   New Features
-   System Requirements
-   Installation 
-   Known Issues
-   Documentation
-   Engine End-of-Life (EOL) Program
   -   The Problem
   -   The Solution
   -   The Engine End-Of-Life Program
-   Participating in the McAfee Beta Program



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NEW FEATURES

-   Support for Office Version 12 : Providing
    enhanced support of detection and repair for
    Office 12 documents as well as improved .ZIP
    file support.

-   Reduced memory usage : We've looked at malware
    trends and have delivered significantly lower memory
    usage across all platforms when compared to previous
    McAfee Anti-Virus Engines.

-   More protection : Automatic identification and 
    removal of viruses delivering the next generation
    of best-of-breed Anti-Virus Engines. 
    It offers improved protection against existing, 
    new and potential threats and increases the depth 
    and breadth of the protection we provide.

-   It's faster than before : We've listened to our 
    customers who asked for a faster Engine and it 
    delivers superior performance to current McAfee 
    Anti-Virus products on all supported platforms.

-   100% drop-in compatibility with existing McAfee 
    Anti-Virus products and DAT files. It's easy to 
    upgrade; just replace your existing Engine with
    the new version and you're protected. No worrying
    about compatibility.


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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Please see your product's own documentation 
for complete information about system requirements 
for the engine.


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INSTALLATION 

Please see your product's own documentation for 
complete information about installation of the engine.


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KNOWN ISSUES

There are no known issues at this time.


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DOCUMENTATION

Documentation is included on the product package
and/or is available with a valid grant number
from the McAfee download site:

      https://secure.nai.com/us/forms/downloads/upgrades/login.asp


-  A LICENSE Agreement.
   The terms under which you may use the
   product. Read it carefully. If you install
   the product, you agree to the license
   terms.

-  This README file.


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ENGINE END-OF-LIFE (EOL) PROGRAM

Your Anti-Virus software is only as good as its last
update!

Updating your DAT files and Anti-Virus Engine regularly
is essential and a MUST!

Sometimes architectural changes to the way that
the DAT files and Anti-Virus Engine work
together make it critical for you to update your
engine: an old engine WILL NOT catch some of today’s
threats.

Avert recommends having as part of your
Security Policy Program, an Engine Update process to
take advantage of the latest technology and stay
protected!


THE PROBLEM

Between 250 and 600 new detections are added to the
DAT files daily by Avert. If you are not
up-to-date, you are vulnerable to any one of them
that gets a foothold in the field (also known as "in
the wild").

McAfee Avert(R) releases regular DAT files,
ensuring that full protection is added to all McAfee
products. The DAT files contain the information
required to detect and remove threats - what to look
for and where to look for it.

However, today’s threats are evolving almost on a
daily basis. Software providers continue to make
changes to operating systems and applications that
can change the way a program acts or works, and a
Anti-Virus program may not understand the
changes.


THE SOLUTION

Taking this into account, McAfee regularly
updates its Anti-Virus Engine used by ALL McAfee
virus-detection and removal products. The
engine understands all the different structures in
which a virus could lurk - EXE files, Microsoft
Office files, Linux files, and so on. Occasionally
these changes require us to make significant
architectural changes to the engine as well as the
DAT files.

Avert strongly recommends that users of ALL McAfee
Anti-Virus products update the engine in the 
products they have deployed as part of a
sound security best-practices program.

THE ENGINE END-OF-LIFE PROGRAM

To ensure protection from the evolving malicious code
threat, users should update as soon as possible upon
the release of McAfee’s latest Anti-Virus Engine.

When a new engine is released, the existing engine
will begin its countdown to its end of life, and
will therefore no longer be supported by McAfee.

Information on the McAfee Engine End-of-Life policy 
and a full list of supported engines and products 
can be found at:

       http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/support/customer_service/end_life.html


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PARTICIPATING IN THE MCAFEE BETA PROGRAM

To download new beta software or to read about the
latest beta information, visit the McAfee beta web
site located at:
       http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/downloads/beta/index.html

To submit beta feedback on any McAfee product, send
e-mail to:
       mcafee_beta@mcafee.com

McAfee is devoted to providing solutions based on
your input.


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CONTACT INFORMATION

THREAT CENTER:  McAfee Avert(R) Labs
    Homepage
       http://www.mcafee.com/us/threat_center/default.asp

    Avert Labs Threat Library
       http://vil.nai.com/

    Avert Labs WebImmune & Submit a Sample (Logon
    credentials required)
       https://www.webimmune.net/default.asp

    Avert Labs DAT Notification Service
       http://vil.nai.com/vil/signup_DAT_notification.aspx

DOWNLOAD SITE
    Homepage
       http://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/

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       required)
   -   Security Updates (DATs, engine)
   -   HotFix and Patch Releases
       -   For Security Vulnerabilities (Available
           to the public)
       -   For Products (ServicePortal account and
           valid grant number required)
   -   Product Evaluation
   -   McAfee Beta Program

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   Phone:     +1-888-VIRUS NO or +1-888-847-8766
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LICENSE INFORMATION

LICENSE AGREEMENT

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THE SOFTWARE. IF APPLICABLE, YOU MAY RETURN THE
PRODUCT TO MCAFEE OR THE PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A
FULL REFUND.


LICENSE ATTRIBUTIONS

This product includes or may include:

* Software originally written by Philip Hazel,
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 University of Cambridge. A
copy of the license agreement for this software can
be found at www.pcre.org/license.txt * Software
developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the 
OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/).
* Cryptographic software written by Eric A. Young
and software written by Tim J. Hudson. * Some
software programs that are licensed (or sublicensed)
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and redistribute certain programs, or portions
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GPL, which is distributed to someone in an
executable binary format, that the source code also
be made available to those users. For any such
software covered under the GPL, the source code is
made available on this CD. If any Free Software
licenses require that McAfee provide rights to use,
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rights shall take precedence over the rights and
restrictions herein. * Software originally written
by Henry Spencer, Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997
Henry Spencer. * Software originally written by
Robert Nordier, Copyright (C) 1996-7 Robert Nordier.
* Software written by Douglas W. Sauder. * Software
developed by the Apache Software Foundation
(http://www.apache.org/). A copy of the license
agreement for this software can be found at
www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt.
* International Components for Unicode ("ICU")
Copyright (C) 1995-2002 International Business
Machines Corporation and others. * Software
developed by CrystalClear Software, Inc., Copyright
(C) 2000 CrystalClear Software, Inc. * FEAD(R)
Optimizer(R) technology, Copyright Netopsystems AG,
Berlin, Germany. * Outside In(R) Viewer Technology
(C) 1992-2001 Stellent Chicago, Inc. and/or Outside
In(R) HTML Export, (C) 2001 Stellent Chicago, Inc.
* Software copyrighted by Thai Open Source Software
Center Ltd. and Clark Cooper, (C) 1998, 1999, 2000.
* Software copyrighted by Expat maintainers.
* Software copyrighted by The Regents of the
University of California, (C) 1996, 1989, 1998-2000.
* Software copyrighted by Gunnar Ritter. * Software
copyrighted by Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network
Circle, Santa Clara, California 95054, U.S.A., (C)
2003. * Software copyrighted by Gisle Aas. (C)
1995-2003. * Software copyrighted by Michael A.
Chase, (C) 1999-2000. * Software copyrighted by Neil
Winton, (C) 1995-1996. * Software copyrighted by RSA
Data Security, Inc., (C) 1990-1992. * Software
copyrighted by Sean M. Burke, (C) 1999, 2000.
* Software copyrighted by Martijn Koster, (C) 1995.
* Software copyrighted by Brad Appleton, (C)
1996-1999.  * Software copyrighted by Michael G.
Schwern, (C) 2001. * Software copyrighted by Graham
Barr, (C) 1998. * Software copyrighted by Larry Wall
and Clark Cooper, (C) 1998-2000. * Software
copyrighted by Frodo Looijaard, (C) 1997. * Software
copyrighted by the Python Software Foundation,
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003. A copy of the
license agreement for this software can be found at
www.python.org. * Software copyrighted by Beman
Dawes, (C) 1994-1999, 2002. * Software written by
Andrew Lumsdaine, Lie-Quan Lee, Jeremy G. Siek (C)
1997-2000 University of Notre Dame. * Software
copyrighted by Simone Bordet & Marco Cravero, (C)
2002. * Software copyrighted by Stephen Purcell, (C)
2001. * Software developed by the Indiana University
Extreme! Lab (http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/).
* Software copyrighted by International Business
Machines Corporation and others, (C) 1995-2003.
* Software developed by the University of
California, Berkeley and its contributors.
* Software developed by Ralf S. Engelschall
<rse@engelschall.com> for use in the mod_ssl project
(http:// www.modssl.org/). * Software copyrighted by
Kevlin Henney, (C) 2000-2002. * Software copyrighted
by Peter Dimov and Multi Media Ltd. (C) 2001, 2002.
* Software copyrighted by David Abrahams, (C) 2001,
2002. See http://www.boost.org/libs/bind/bind.html
for documentation. * Software copyrighted by Steve
Cleary, Beman Dawes, Howard Hinnant & John Maddock,
(C) 2000. * Software copyrighted by Boost.org, (C)
1999-2002. * Software copyrighted by Nicolai M.
Josuttis, (C) 1999. * Software copyrighted by Jeremy
Siek, (C) 1999-2001. * Software copyrighted by
Daryle Walker, (C) 2001. * Software copyrighted by
Chuck Allison and Jeremy Siek, (C) 2001, 2002.
* Software copyrighted by Samuel Krempp, (C) 2001.
See http://www.boost.org for updates, documentation,
and revision history. * Software copyrighted by Doug
Gregor (gregod@cs.rpi.edu), (C) 2001, 2002.
* Software copyrighted by Cadenza New Zealand Ltd.,
(C) 2000. * Software copyrighted by Jens Maurer,
(C) 2000, 2001. * Software copyrighted by Jaakko
Järvi (jaakko.jarvi@cs.utu.fi), (C) 1999, 2000.
* Software copyrighted by Ronald Garcia, (C) 2002.
* Software copyrighted by David Abrahams, Jeremy
Siek, and Daryle Walker, (C) 1999-2001. * Software
copyrighted by Stephen Cleary (shammah@voyager.net),
(C) 2000. * Software copyrighted by Housemarque Oy
<http://www.housemarque.com>, (C) 2001. * Software
copyrighted by Paul Moore, (C) 1999. * Software
copyrighted by Dr. John Maddock, (C) 1998-2002.
* Software copyrighted by Greg Colvin and Beman
Dawes, (C) 1998, 1999. * Software copyrighted by
Peter Dimov, (C) 2001, 2002. * Software copyrighted
by Jeremy Siek and John R. Bandela, (C) 2001.
* Software copyrighted by Joerg Walter and Mathias
Koch, (C) 2000-2002. * Software copyrighted by
Carnegie Mellon University (C) 1989, 1991, 1992.
* Software copyrighted by Cambridge Broadband Ltd.,
(C) 2001-2003. * Software copyrighted by Sparta,
Inc., (C) 2003-2004. * Software copyrighted by
Cisco, Inc and Information Network Center of Beijing
University of Posts and Telecommunications, (C)
2004. * Software copyrighted by Simon Josefsson, (C)
2003. * Software copyrighted by Thomas Jacob, (C)
2003-2004. * Software copyrighted by Advanced
Software Engineering Limited, (C) 2004. * Software
copyrighted by Todd C. Miller, (C) 1998. * Software
copyrighted by The Regents of the University of
California, (C) 1990, 1993, with code derived from
software contributed to Berkeley by Chris Torek.





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