Product guide

On-demand scan preferences
• Always enable the scan for Archives & Compressed Files while performing on-demand scan. This is
recommended because you may have disabled scanning option for these files.
• Always select Quarantine as the secondary action for virus and spyware detections so that you can
retrieve the files from the product console later.
On-demand scan schedule
• Schedule an on-demand scan during non-peak hours (for example, during weekends or
maintenance period).
• When scheduling an on-demand scan for the first time, schedule a full on-demand scan of your
entire hard disk.
Anti-malware exclusions
You can add regular expressions that match required patterns to exclude multiple files and folders
from being scanned.
Here are some recommended exclusions:
• Microsoft Outlook database files
• Thunderbird database files
• Encrypted files
• Generic plist files such as Info.plist or version.plist for on-access scanning
Here are the regular expressions for some of the recommended exclusions:
• To exclude files with the extension mdb, use .*\.mdb.
• To exclude files with the extension mdb or odc, use .*\.(mdb|odc.
• To exclude each user's Entourage/Outlook Database files of different Microsoft Office version, use /
Users/.*/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data/Office\ \d+\ Identities/.*Identity/Database.
• To exclude all Info.plist, version.plist under /Applications, use /Applications/.*/Contents/(version|
Info).plist.
• To exclude files with the extensions jar, rar, or war under /private/var/tmp, use /private/var/tmp/.*
\..+ar.
• To exclude files under /private/var/tmp starting with a letter and ending with a number, use /
private/var/tmp/([A-Z]|[a-z]).*[0-9]$.
Application protection
Application protection allows you define rules to run applications without restrictions, with restrictions,
or block the execution.
Configure preferences for application protection
Define the permission preferences for Apple-signed binaries and modified or unknown applications.
Task
1
Click the McAfee menulet
on the status bar, then select McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac Preferences.
2
On the Application Protection tab, click
, type the administrator password, then click OK.
Configuring protection preferences on a standalone Mac
Application protection
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