McAfee introduces antivirus product for virtual environments

McAfee has developed an antivirus product or virtulised environments. The company has partnered with Citrix to provide a means of protecting virtual machines in the same way that it can handle physical ones.The system, known as McAfee Management for Optimised Virtualised Environments AntiVirus (Move AV) has been specifically designed for Citrix XenDesktop to help customers protect corporate networks from malware.Launched at the Citrix Synergy Europe conference, the two companies also announced that they were working together to integrate McAfee Move direct in the Citrix XenClient bare-metal hypervisor, so that protection would be delivered automatically.The development has been designed to help protect corporate systems as the trend towards desktop virtualisation continues.

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