McAfee VirusScan On-Access General Policies must be configured to scan floppy during shutdown.

From McAfee VirusScan 8.8 Managed Client STIG

Part of DTAM003-McAfee VirusScan on access scan floppy

Associated with: CCI-001242

SV-55139r1_rule McAfee VirusScan On-Access General Policies must be configured to scan floppy during shutdown.

Vulnerability discussion

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.

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From the ePO server console System Tree, select the Systems tab, select the asset to be checked, select Actions, select Agent, and select Modify Policies on a Single System. From the product pull down list, select VirusScan Enterprise 8.8.0. Select from the Policy column the policy associated with the On-Access General Policies. Under the General tab, locate the "Scan:" label. Ensure the "Floppy during shutdown" option is selected. Criteria: If the "Floppy during shutdown" option is selected, this is not a finding. On the client machine, use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKLM\Software\McAfee\ (32-bit) HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\McAfee\ (64-bit) SystemCore\VSCore\On Access Scanner\McShield\Configuration Criteria: If the value of bScanFloppyonShutdown is 1, this is not a finding. If the value is 0, this is a finding.

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From the ePO server console System Tree, select the Systems tab, select the asset to be checked, select Actions, select Agent, and select Modify Policies on a Single System. From the product pull down list, select VirusScan Enterprise 8.8.0. Select from the Policy column the policy associated with the On-Access General Policies. Under the General tab, locate the "Scan:" label. Select the "Floppy during shutdown" option. Select Save.

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