Microsoft, McAfee Beta SharePoint Virus Scanning

McAfee has begun beta testing a new product named PortalShield, designed to protect Microsoft's SharePoint servers from viruses and other malicious content.

PortalShield integrates with SharePoint Portal Server 2001, as well as the upcoming version 2.0 and Windows SharePoint Services, currently shipping with Office Beta 2. It can scan all file types stored in SharePoint.

"The McAfee engineering team has worked closely with the SharePoint team during development to ensure seamless integration with the WSS VS API 1.0 supplied by Microsoft," SharePoint beta coordinators wrote in an e-mail to testers. "McAfee PortalShield has a quick and easy installation and is designed to protect you SharePoint installation from viruses and bad content from the moment you install it."

The PortalShield Beta 1 release is available for download through McAfee's beta program and the company's PrimeSupport Portal. It requires the Java 2 Runtime Environment and Internet Explorer 5.5 or later. PortalShield runs within Windows Server as a Windows service called McAfee SQL Protect.