McAfee ROMShield Info Card

Congratulations --- in addition to purchasing BootWare, the best centralized
boot ROM available, you've also purchased McAfee's ROMShield --- the best
boot sector anti-virus product on the market.

ROMShield is a firmware-based, enterprise security management product that
is part of a collection of McAfee products offering virus protection to
workstation and network users.

Over 75% of reported computer virus infections are boot sector infections.
The most common way that a computer can be infected with a boot sector
virus is to have an infected floppy diskette in the drive when a computer
is booted. Traditional anti-virus software cannot protect against this type
of infection when a machine is first powered on because DOS and the
anti-virus software are not yet active.

ROMShield provides this protection. It loads into your system as an extended
BIOS, before your computer starts the boot process, consuming only 1KB of DOS
memory. Since ROMShield is hardware-based, it is more secure than
software-only protection.

ROMShield provides the following forms of protection:

 * checks the boot sectors of floppy disks for infection (detects over 300
   different boot viruses)

 * warns the user if an application tries to write the master boot record

 * intercepts and warns about calls to the boot sector

 * detects boot sector viruses during the boot-up procedure

 * disinfects floppies by removing boot viruses from floppy disks

 * prevents direct writes to the hard disk boot sector and master boot record

 * prompts the user if the first track of the hard disk is being reformatted

 * anti-stealth technology prevents viruses from finding the original BIOS
   entry point for direct writes


When ROMShield detects a possible infection, a siren-like warning will be
heard, and a message will pop up giving information as to the type of
violation detected. A choice of actions will be also presented, appropriate
to the violation. Note: if your display is in graphics mode (ie. running
Microsoft Windows), no message will be displayed, but the siren warning
will still be heard.

It is possible to disable ROMShield functionality from within BootWare's
ROM-based configuration facility. When using BootWare strictly for anti-virus
protection, you may also want to select the hard drive as the default boot
device, instead of defaulting to boot from the network.
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