McAfee VirusScan On-Access Scanner General Settings must be configured to scan floppy during shutdown.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-6468	DTAM003	SV-56368r1_rule		Medium

Description
Computer viruses in the early days of personal computing were almost exclusively passed around by floppy disks. Floppy disks would be used to boot the computer and, if infected, would infect the hard drive files, as well. Although floppy drives have fallen out of use, it is still a good security practice, whenever the antivirus software allows, to enable the scanning software to scan a floppy disk at shutdown.

Description

Computer viruses in the early days of personal computing were almost exclusively passed around by floppy disks. Floppy disks would be used to boot the computer and, if infected, would infect the hard drive files, as well. Although floppy drives have fallen out of use, it is still a good security practice, whenever the antivirus software allows, to enable the scanning software to scan a floppy disk at shutdown.

STIG	Date
McAfee VirusScan 8.8 Local Client STIG	2017-01-04

Details

Check Text ( C-49294r1_chk )
Access the local VirusScan console by clicking Start->All Programs->McAfee->VirusScan Console. On the menu bar, click Task->On-Access Scanner Properties. Select the General Settings. Under the General tab, locate the "Scan:" label. Ensure the "Floppy during shutdown" option is selected. Criteria: If the "Floppy during shutdown" 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\On Access Scanner\McShield\Configuration\ Criteria: If the value of bScanFloppyonShutdown is 1, this is not a finding. If the value is 0, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-49294r1_chk )

Access the local VirusScan console by clicking Start->All Programs->McAfee->VirusScan Console.
On the menu bar, click Task->On-Access Scanner Properties.
Select the General Settings.

Under the General tab, locate the "Scan:" label. Ensure the "Floppy during shutdown" option is selected.

Criteria: If the "Floppy during shutdown" 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\On Access Scanner\McShield\Configuration\

Criteria: If the value of bScanFloppyonShutdown is 1, this is not a finding. If the value is 0, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-49049r2_fix)
Access the local VirusScan console by clicking Start->All Programs->McAfee->VirusScan Console On the menu bar, click Task->On-Access Scanner Properties. Select the General Settings. Under the General tab, locate the "Scan:" label. Select the "Floppy during shutdown" option. Click OK to Save.