VirusScan 5.02

VirusScan is an antivirus and anti-malware solution developed by Network Associates (now McAfee). Designed for both home and business environments, it provides real-time protection against viruses, worms, Trojans, and other malicious code. Key capabilities include always-on scanning, on-demand and scheduled scans, heuristic detection, and automatic updates to virus definition files and scanning engines. The software can quarantine or remove threats, scan email and web downloads, and supports customizable exclusions to reduce performance impact on Windows desktops and servers. In enterprise deployments, VirusScan integrates with ePolicy Orchestrator for centralized rollout, policy enforcement, and reporting across large networks. Widely used during the Network Associates era, VirusScan helped establish best practices for endpoint protection and informed the evolution of McAfee’s modern security offerings.

VirusScan is developed by Network Associates. The most popular version of this product among our users is 5.0. The names of program executable files are hppscan6.exe, lnkstub.exe, mctray.exe, scan32.exe and VSCAN40.exe.