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• Application Protection — Define rules for applications, to run with full network access, restricted
network access, or deny application execution.
• Desktop Firewall — Define rules that control incoming and outgoing network traffic.
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to prevent further changes.
McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac is shipped with the default set of policies. Verify the protection
preferences for each component and make sure that it matches your requirements.. For more
information on setting preferences, see Configure protection preferences.
Anti-malware
Configure anti-malware preferences to define the actions for an on-access scan or on-demand scan,
and to exclude specific paths from scanning.
Configure on-access scan preferences
The on-access scan protects your Mac from threats in real time. It scans for malware whenever an
item is read from or written to the hard disk, and cleans or quarantines the file according to your
configuration.
Task
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Click the McAfee menulet on the status bar, then select McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac Preferences.
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On the Anti-malware tab, click , type the administrator password, then click OK.
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From the Scan files while drop-down list, select one of these options:
• Read — To scan items When they are read from the hard disk.
• Write — To scan items when they are written to the hard disk.
• Read & Write — To scan items when they are read from or written to the hard disk.
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In Maximum scan time (in seconds), specify the duration allowed to scan each file. You can specify a value
between 10 and 999. The default value is 45.
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From the When a virus is found drop-down list, select one of these options:
• Clean — To clean the item that contains a virus. Use the If clean fails drop-down list, to select a
secondary action (quarantine the item, delete the item or send notification)
• Quarantine — To quarantine the item that contains a virus. Use the If clean fails drop-down list, to
select a secondary action (delete the item or send notification)
• Delete — To delete the item that contains a virus.
• Notify — To notify you when a virus is detected. No other action is taken.
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From the When a spyware is found drop-down list, select one of these options:
• Clean — To clean the item that contains spyware. Use the If clean fails drop-down list, to select a
secondary action (quarantine the item, delete the item or send notification)
• Quarantine — To quarantine the item that contains spyware. Use the If clean fails drop-down list, to
select a secondary action (delete the item or send notification)
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Configuring protection preferences on a standalone Mac
Anti-malware
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