Product guide
6
From the Also scan drop-down list, select where you want to enable scanning:
•
Archives & Compressed Files
•
Apple Mail Messages
•
Network Volumes
When you run a full scan, by default, all network volumes mounted on your Mac are scanned for
threats.
7
Click to prevent further changes.
Define anti-malware exclusions
Exclude files and folder paths from an on-access scan or on-demand scan.
Task
1
Click the McAfee menulet
on the status bar, then select McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac Preferences.
2
Click Anti-malware, then click Exclusions.
3
Click
, type the administrator password, then click OK.
4
Click
in the bottom left corner of the console.
5
Select the path of the required files and folders, then click Open.
6
Select or deselect the On-access Scan and On-demand Scan options as needed.
• Double-click an item to change the name or path that appears in the exclusion list.
• Use regular expressions to exclude items from scanning. For example, to exclude all files in the
desktop from scanning, specify the path as /Users/user/Desktop/*.*
•
To remove the item from the exclusions list, select it, then click
in the bottom left corner of
the page (or press fn+delete).
If you deselect the On-access Scan and On-demand Scan options for a path added to the exclusion list, the
path is removed from the exclusion list immediately.
7
Click to prevent further changes.
Best practices for anti-malware preferences
This section describes the best practices to define the preferences for scheduling on-access scan and
on-demand scan.
On-access scan preferences
• Always enable On-access-Scan because it checks every file the user accesses, and detects malware
before it runs.
• Enable the scan option for the Network Volumes when needed, to scan files copied from or written to
any network volumes.
• Always select Quarantine as the secondary action for virus and spyware detections so that you can
retrieve the files from the product console later.
4
Configuring protection preferences on a standalone Mac
Anti-malware
38
McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac 2.1.0 Product Guide