Anti-Malware Scanning is performed based on the settings you have configured on the
Anti-malware tab for
On-Access Scan and
On-Demand Scan. The On-Access scan protects your Mac from threats in real time. It scans for malware when an item is read from or written to the hard disk, and cleans or quarantines the file according to your configuration. The on-demand scan runs across the volumes specified at the scheduled times.
- Click the McAfee menulet on the status bar, then select McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac Preferences or McAfee VirusScan for Mac.
- On the Anti-malware tab, click the lock, type the administrator password, then click OK.
- 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. 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.
Primary and Secondary actions for Anti-malware
From the When a virus is found drop-down list, select one of these options:
- Clean - To clean the item that contains a virus (secondary actions can be Quarantine, Delete or Notify)
- Quarantine - To quarantine the item that contains a virus (secondary actions can be Delete or Notify)
- Delete - To delete the item that contains a virus (no secondary actions)
- Notify - To notify you when a virus is detected (no secondary actions)
NOTE: Primary and Secondary actions settings apply for When Spyware is found, and also apply for the On-demand Scan.
