About the client installation settings

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Created: 2011-06-29

Updated: 2011-12-17

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About the client installation settings

The Client Deployment Wizard prompts you to specify the group name and the protection technologies that you want to install on the client computer.

The protection technologies are grouped in feature sets. You can specify which feature set that are active on the client computer. Feature sets are assigned according to the client group.

Table: Feature sets defines the components within the feature sets that you can install on the client computer.

Table: Feature sets

Feature set	Description
Virus, Spyware, and Basic Download Protection	Virus and Spyware Protection Installs the core virus, spyware, and Download Protection features. Includes Auto-Protect real-time file scanning and manual file scanning. Advanced Download Protection Allows you full control over detection aggressiveness. Download Insight detects a malicious file or potentially malicious file when a user tries to download the file from a browser or a text messaging client. Download Insight uses reputation information to inspect downloaded files for security problems. Email Protection Scans the emails for malicious code as they are sent or received. See How Symantec Endpoint Protection uses reputation data to make decisions about files.
Proactive Threat Protection	SONAR Protection Replaces the TruScan technology in previous versions. SONAR operates in real time to identify malicious behavior of unknown threats. Application and Device Control Monitors the applications on client computers and the hardware that connects to client computers. Proactive Threat Protection is disabled on the computers that run supported Windows Server operating systems. See About SONAR. See About application and device control.
Network Threat Protection	Firewall Guards against network threats by detecting and blowing inbound and outbound malicious traffic. Intrusion Prevention Uses the signatures to identify attacks on client computers. For known attacks, Intrusion Prevention automatically discards the packets that match known threats. See How a firewall works. See How intrusion prevention works.

Feature set

Description

Virus, Spyware, and Basic Download Protection

Virus and Spyware Protection
Installs the core virus, spyware, and Download Protection features. Includes Auto-Protect real-time file scanning and manual file scanning.

Advanced Download Protection
Allows you full control over detection aggressiveness. Download Insight detects a malicious file or potentially malicious file when a user tries to download the file from a browser or a text messaging client. Download Insight uses reputation information to inspect downloaded files for security problems.
Email Protection
Scans the emails for malicious code as they are sent or received.

See How Symantec Endpoint Protection uses reputation data to make decisions about files.

Proactive Threat Protection

SONAR Protection
Replaces the TruScan technology in previous versions. SONAR operates in real time to identify malicious behavior of unknown threats.
Application and Device Control
Monitors the applications on client computers and the hardware that connects to client computers.

Proactive Threat Protection is disabled on the computers that run supported Windows Server operating systems.

See About SONAR.

See About application and device control.

Network Threat Protection

Firewall
Guards against network threats by detecting and blowing inbound and outbound malicious traffic.
Intrusion Prevention
Uses the signatures to identify attacks on client computers. For known attacks, Intrusion Prevention automatically discards the packets that match known threats.

See How a firewall works.

See How intrusion prevention works.

See About the types of threat protection that Symantec Endpoint Protection provides.

See Configuring client installation package features.

After installation, you can enable or disable the protection technologies in the security policies.

See About enabling and disabling protection.

See Performing tasks that are common to all security policies.