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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 89360" data-source="post: 911141">McAfee Web Gateway, formerly known as McAfee GateWay Edition or Web Washer is an appliance, typically deployed in large organisations, such as banks.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/assets/data-sheets/ds-web-gateway.pdf[/URL]You can view it as a business version of those secure routers, such as the ex Norton Core.The Appliance blocks malware and attacks before they ever reach any system. McAfee END and GW are synchronised, whilst home products are not connected to the GW database.The thing about home McAfee products is that they will only detect malware, once there is some obvious confirmation file is malicious. Whilst all business products act immediately in a default-deny kind of way.Edit: to answer more accurately why GW detects malware when home products don’t, this is due to the lower threshold of maliciousness set. McAfee calculates a probability or likelihood that file is a threat, starting from 50 (unknown) to 100 (known malicious). Home products are somewhere at the 80 threshold (my guess) whilst business products can go down to 50 (clean all unknown files by default). Whitelisted files will logically score 0 (there is 0% chance that this is malware).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 89360, post: 911141"] McAfee Web Gateway, formerly known as McAfee GateWay Edition or Web Washer is an appliance, typically deployed in large organisations, such as banks. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/assets/data-sheets/ds-web-gateway.pdf[/URL] You can view it as a business version of those secure routers, such as the ex Norton Core. The Appliance blocks malware and attacks before they ever reach any system. McAfee END and GW are synchronised, whilst home products are not connected to the GW database. The thing about home McAfee products is that they will only detect malware, once there is some obvious confirmation file is malicious. Whilst all business products act immediately in a default-deny kind of way. Edit: to answer more accurately why GW detects malware when home products don’t, this is due to the lower threshold of maliciousness set. McAfee calculates a probability or likelihood that file is a threat, starting from 50 (unknown) to 100 (known malicious). Home products are somewhere at the 80 threshold (my guess) whilst business products can go down to 50 (clean all unknown files by default). Whitelisted files will logically score 0 (there is 0% chance that this is malware). [/QUOTE]

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