AVIRA SMC is a network-dedicated management application, which turns specific AVIRA antivirus products into a solid, safe and stable security solution. It provides administrators with advanced capabilities of centralized and remote management of AVIRA software. By means of a simple and very intuitive interface, the IT Manager is able to control, update or access antivirus protection commands at network level.

AVIRA SMC beta version allows remote installation, licensing, configuration, updating and monitoring of the supported AVIRA security solutions. Thus, it significantly alleviates the administrators’ workload, while reducing the operating costs for the AVIRA-protected networks.

Requirements: Computer: Pentium I, 133 MHz or better; 19 MB on HDD; 16 MB of free memory; Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP.

Here are some key features of "AVIRA Security Management Center":

· Remote installation, licensing, configuration, updating and monitoring of the supported AVIRA security solutions;
· Central storage of AVIRA products for network installation;
· Central view for all events and reports issued by AVIRA products over the network (Event Manager);
· Alert Manager, to send network and email warnings in case of a certain event;
· The network administrator can set the Security Environment in hierarchical groups and subgroups, in order to easily map corporate organizational units;
· Centralized management for product-specific actions;
· Graphical user interface for configuration and operation of AVIRA SMC(Snap-in for Microsoft Management Console);
· Configurable reporting system;
· Automatic and manual updates;
· SSL encrypted communication protocol