McAfee Opens Beta Tests, Readies More

By David Worthington | Published March 24, 2005, 7:21 PM

For all of those who cannot get enough unfinished software, McAfee is serving up a host of betas with promises of more to come. Currently, McAfee PortalShield 1.0, Virex 7.6, McAfee Desktop Firewall 8.5 Beta 2 and McAfee NetShield for NetWare 4.6 are immediately available for testing.

McAfee's Beta program manager has told BetaNews to expect a new batch of tests in April including: GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange 6.0.2, SpamKiller for Microsoft Exchange 2.1.2, McAfee Entercept Linux Agent and McAfee Secure Content Management Appliances 4.0. The betas listed above are linked directly to the product homepages.

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Currently No Antivirus which is able to stop all virus, including mc afee and Norton.
They need to create beta version which solve this problems. and ask user to test it and give feedback, so they can secure enough if using the new antivirus.
currently is not secure enough

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gimmiegimmiegimmiegimmie *in a greedy lecherous manner, clasping and wringing hands* must have more betas LOL

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