Product guide

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Introduction
McAfee
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Endpoint Protection for Mac offers scalable security solution that minimizes the risk of
exposing your Mac to vulnerabilities.
The software provides a securely configured environment that:
• Protects your Mac from viruses, spyware, trojan horses, and other malware threats.
• Prevents unauthorized network access.
• Prevents execution of unwanted application.
• Restricts applications to run with restricted or without network access.
Contents
Why you need security for Mac
How McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac protects your system
Product features
Why you need security for Mac
Systems without protection may result security breach in many ways such as data loss, misuse of
personal and business information, and system disorder.
New products and technologies broaden opportunities for new security threats and challenges. The
motive behind these threats is to interrupt and espionage your system or destruct the data and the
system functionality completely.
The targeted security threats devised by cyber criminals and hackers are evolving consistently and
increasing the risk consistently. The analyst reports say that the overall malware samples reached
more than a 100 million implying the importance of securing your Mac from the threats.
The list of threats and reported vulnerabilities that can harm your Mac are:
Threat category Potential threat
Malware Directs the user to access malicious items that can infect a Mac.
Examples: Flashback Trojan, Fake AV
Spyware Tracks every key you type to access sensitive information, such as user name
and password and other personal details.
Example: Keyloggers
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McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac 2.1.0 Product Guide
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