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To change the desktop firewall protection from Regular mode to Adaptive mode, click | McAfee

Endpoint Protection for Mac Preferences | Desktop Firewall | Adaptive Mode.

How Adaptive mode firewall protection works

In Adaptive mode, the precedence method is followed, but differently than in Regular mode.

In Adaptive mode, desktop firewall uses precedence to apply rules. The rule at the top of the rules list

is applied first. When the network packet does not match the defined rules from the list, an allow rule

is created to allow the non-matching packet.

If the IP destination is a broadcast, multicast, loopback, or ICMP protocol, the network packet is

blocked.

For security reasons, when Adaptive mode is enabled, incoming pings are blocked unless an explicit

allow rule is created for incoming ICMP traffic.

This diagram shows how network packets are handled in Adaptive mode.

Configuring protection preferences on a standalone Mac

Desktop firewall

McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac 2.1.0 Product Guide