Shavlik Technologies has just made our Patch + Antivirus solution for companies of all sizes even richer with the release of NetChk Protect v7.6.

Shavlik has enhanced our patch management with major performance improvements as well as lots of new functionality around the antivirus functionality to simplify the IT management experience.

New features in Shavlik NetChk Protect v7.6:

• Patch Scan caching abilities improves performance, especially over WANs.
• Agent policy actions provides the ability to execute as an ad-hoc task (e.g. executing a patch\power\asset task, update definitions or binaries, clearing retry counts, etc.).
• Scan and Machine views provides the original Scan State column (Option to display the original scan state as an additional grouping\filtering option).
• Agent AV ad-hoc tasks from the console simplifies management for the administrator.
• Quarantine management (both policy driven & ad-hoc tasks), provides the administrator better control over quarantined threats.
• “Threat Event View” provides the administrator more granular view of threat and Active Protection events.
• Scan specific file/folder/drive – Provides an individual user (agent) the ability to perform a scan of a specific file\folder or an entire USB drive just placed on their computer (from a right-click action in Windows explorer).
• New AV/Threat Reports provides better reporting to the administrator and their management.
• AV Alerting from console provides the administrator automatic alerting when new threat breakouts occur.
• Exclude files/folders from being scanned provides the administrator the ability to exclude files/folder from being scanned, such as: policy-driven w/ wildcards, environmental variables), ability for the administrator to exclude files/folders that you don’t want to scan for performance or other reasons.

Shavlik Technologies has just made Greener IT a reality for companies of all sizes with the release of NetChk Protect 7.5 Plus Power Management.

Shavlik has integrated its best-in-class patch management seamlessly with power management (and Wake-on-LAN) so customers can maximize energy cost savings while minimizing systems missed by critical security updates because they were powered off during scheduled maintenance periods.

New features in Shavlik NetChk Protect 7.5:

• Power off or put machines into hibernate or sleep mode on an immediate or scheduled basis
• Wake-on-LAN: “Wake-up” machines on the network on-demand or on a scheduled basis
• Agent Support for Asset Scans: Define asset scan tasks for the NetChk Agent for software assets and hardware assets
• Software Asset Scans of Offline Virtual Machines: Collect current software asset data from VMs regardless of power state

Upgrade to Shavlik NetChk Protect 7.5 today. The upgrade to NetChk Protect 7.5 is free to Shavlik customers with an active service agreement. Contact sales@shavlik.com to add Power Management today.

Shavlik Technologies is currently beta testing NetChk Protect 7.5 + Power Management. More than $2.8 billion is wasted annually in the United States powering servers, workstations, and laptops that are not in use. Interested in joining the beta? Contact protect75.beta@shavlik.com to learn how you can join.

Shavlik’s new Power Management capabilities give you centralized control to power off computers when not in use. Shutting down a single computer at night and on weekends can save between $26 and $60 per computer, per year. Shavlik’s Power Management module includes Wake-on-LAN so you can power on computers in your local network for the patch cycle.