Release Notes for McAfee® AntiSpyware Enterprise Module 8.7 - Beta 2

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Beta product license

The beta license for this product expires on August 31, 2008.

Changes in this beta release

With this Beta 2 release of AntiSpyware Enterprise Module 8.7, an Alert when a cookie detection occurs option has been added to the On-demand Scan, Reports tab.

See New features for more information.

Providing beta feedback

To provide beta feedback, click the link that displays in the McAfee VirusScan Beta dialog box when you open the VirusScan Console and/or refer to the McAfee beta web site for information about how to provide feedback for this beta release.

New features


  • This 8.7 version of the AntiSpyware Enterprise Module works only with VirusScan® Enterprise 8.7i. It does not work with previous versions of VirusScan Enterprise.

  • An Alert when a cookie detection occurs option has been added to the On-demand Scan, Reports tab. When this option is selected, ePolicy Orchestrator alerts are generated, detections are logged in the activity log if you enabled the Log file option on the Reports tab, counted in the scan statistics, and if using McAfee Alert Manager, a notification displays when the cookie is detected. When this option is deselected the detection is logged in the activity log if you enabled the Log file option on the Reports tab and counted in the scan statistics, but ePolicy Orchestrator does not generate alerts and you do not receive detection notifications.

Known issues

Known issues in this release of the software are described below:


  • Issue

    On-access scan cookie detections are logged incorrectly. When cookies are detected by the on-access scanner, the activity log displays two notifications per detection. The first notification displays “no action,” and the second notification displays “delete.” The “delete” action is accurate and the cookie has been removed. This issue is expected to be fixed for the final release of the product.

  • Issue

    When the On-demand Scan Alert when a cookie detection occurs option is deselected, detections are not logged in the activity log as expected even though you enabled the Log file option on the Reports tab. This issue is expected to be fixed for the final release of the product.

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