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McAfee VirusScan On-Delivery Email Scan Policies must be configured to find unknown program threats and Trojans.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-6587 DTAM022 SV-55169r2_rule Medium
Description
Email has become one of the most frequently used methods of spreading malware, through embedded HTML code and attachments. User awareness and training, warning users to not open suspicious emails or email attachments, and not clicking on hyperlinks, etc. from unknown or known senders, will not fully protect from email-borne malware. Mass mailing worms are similar to email-borne viruses, but are self-contained, rather than infecting an existing file. Protecting from email-borne viruses and mass mailing worms by scanning email upon delivery mitigates the risk of infection via email.
STIG Date
McAfee VirusScan 8.8 Managed Client STIG 2019-09-24

Details

Check Text ( C-48783r4_chk )
Note: If an email client is not running on this system, this check can be marked as Not Applicable.

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 Delivery Email Scan Policies. Under the Scan Items tab, locate the "Heuristics:" label. Ensure the "Find unknown program threats and trojans" option is selected.

Criteria: If the "Find unknown program threats and trojans" 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\Email Scanner\Outlook\OnDelivery\DetectionOptions

Criteria: If the value dwProgramHeuristicsLevel is 1, this is not a finding. If the value is 0, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-48023r2_fix)
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 Delivery Email Scan Policies. Under the Scan Items tab, locate the "Heuristics:" label. Select the "Find unknown program threats and trojans" option. Select Save.