Product guide

Quarantine malware
The quarantine feature isolates dangerous or suspicious malware that could harm your Mac otherwise.
To view the quarantined items, from the status bar, click the McAfee menulet
| McAfee Endpoint
Protection for Mac Console | Quarantine. The quarantine page displays the original path of items quarantined
with date and time of the event. You can either remove or restore the quarantined item.
Remove or restore the quarantined item
The Dashboard displays the list of quarantined items with the path, date, and time. You can restore the
quarantined items, only if you are sure that they are non-malicious items, otherwise you can remove
them.
Before you begin
You must have administrator rights to remove or restore the quarantined item from the list.
Before restoring an item, we recommend that you send it to McAfee Labs for testing. To
submit a sample to McAfee Labs, see KB article 68030.
Task
1
Click the McAfee menulet on the status bar, then select McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac Console.
2
On the console dashboard, click Quarantine.
3
Click , type the administrator password, then click OK.
• To restore, select the quarantined item, click Restore, then click OK to confirm.
• To remove, select the quarantined item, click Delete, then click OK to confirm.
4
Click
to prevent further changes.
Update the anti-malware and DAT files
Always keep anti-malware and DAT files up to date to protect your Mac from the latest threats.
Task
1
Click the McAfee menulet
on the status bar, then select McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac Console.
2
On the console dashboard, click Update Now.
3
Click Start Update to initiate the anti-malware update task.
Upon completion, the update summary appears with the engine version, DAT version, update status,
and DAT creation date in the Anti-malware Update section. You can view the status and details of
anti-malware update event in the History page.
To schedule an automatic update, see Configure anti-malware update schedule.
Using the software on a standalone Mac
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