DTAM003 - McAfee VirusScan On-Access Scanner General Settings must be configured to scan floppy during shutdown.

Information

Computer viruses in the early days of personal computing were almost exclusively passed around by floppy disks. Floppy disks would be used to boot the computer and, if infected, would infect the hard drive files, as well. Although floppy drives have fallen out of use, it is still a good security practice, whenever the antivirus software allows, to enable the scanning software to scan a floppy disk at shutdown.

Solution

Access the local VirusScan console by clicking Start->All Programs->McAfee->VirusScan Console
On the menu bar, click Task->On-Access Scanner Properties.
Select the General Settings.

Under the General tab, locate the 'Scan:' label. Select the 'Floppy during shutdown' option.

Click OK to Save.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_McAfee_VirusScan88_Local_Client_V6R1_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

References: 800-53|SI-3c.1., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001242, Rule-ID|SV-243358r722413_rule, STIG-ID|DTAM003, STIG-Legacy|SV-56393, STIG-Legacy|V-6597, Vuln-ID|V-243358

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: 72b7a2939402d5593f7e08eb28bcc8f41f3b4be424c5fba7fd64a81b3a70b001