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McAfee Labs Tools

This collection of utilities is offered by McAfee Labs to accomplish unique tasks that are not commonly encountered during typical use of our anti-virus products.

Each tool was designed by one of the McAfee Labs team to solve problems caused by viruses or Trojans or required for data gathering for analysis of virus caused damage.

Each tool has it's use described next to them.

Latest Additions

08/20/2010: McAfee Labs Stinger

One of our support personnel will help you select one of these that may be needed by you. Please don't use them if you are unsure of their need, misuse could cause worse damage than you are looking to fix.

These utilities have been designed to help you address various issues and should be used as recommended by your McAfee representative. All files presented within this page are not released products. They have not been approved by Quality Assurance and could cause false alarms as well as crashes on your machine(s).

Forensics Tools
Utility Description Instructions
McAfee Customer Submission Tool v2.2 Patch1 posted 02/10/2010 This FREE tool integrates into Microsoft Outlook and allows users to quickly and easily submit missed spam samples and email that was wrongly categorized as spam to McAfee Labs. McAfee Spam Submission Tool version 2.2 can also be used with McAfee Secure Content Management appliances and McAfee Quarantine Manager to train the Bayesian database. The tool supports auto Black/Whitelisting and has an installer that supports automated script-based installations. Supported platforms: Microsoft Windows 2000, XP and Vista with Microsoft Outlook 2000 or later. Documentation
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McAfee FileInsight 2.1 posted 09/10/09 McAfee FileInsight, developed by McAfee Labs, is an integrated tool environment for web site and file analysis. Its many built-in editing and analysis features can be easily extended through simple Python-based plugins.
McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.1 posted 11/05/07 McAfee Rootkit Detective is a program designed and developed by McAfee Labs to proactively detect and clean rootkits that are running on the system. Release Notes
Stinger Releases
Utility Removes Instructions
Aurora Stinger 10.0.1.765
posted 01/28/2010		 Detects and removes threats associated with the 'Operation Aurora' attacks
"FakeAlert" Stinger
posted 03/18/2010		 Detects and removes the following "FakeAlert Variants - Kryptik, AVP Security, Fakespypro, Winwebsec, Antivirus Soft and XP Spy.
Stinger v10.1.0.1009
posted 08/20/10		 Detects and removes threats identified in the "List Viruses" icon in the Stinger application. Release Notes
Beta/Emergency DATs
DAT SET Use
Beta .DAT files Latest available Beta DAT files. These are the files McAfee Labs researchers use to assure they have the most current detections.
Miscellaneous Utilities & Notes
Utility Usefulness
SAVEINFO.ZIP A utility to capture possible boot sector viruses. This tool saves the MBR, the first 2 tracks of your hard disk, as well as the last track of each partition and and the last track of the physical drive.
RWFLOPPY.ZIP V1.0 Diskette IMAGE create/restore utility. Makes a file of a floppy to send via the network
READt80.ZIP Captures tracks 80 & 81 from a 1.44M diskette