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Overview
McAfee VirusScan for Mac provides complete, proactive malware protection for Mac systems and users. Using proven protection methods, it stops all types of viruses and malicious code, including spyware, adware, Trojans, and new, unknown threats.
VirusScan for Mac delivers:
Centralized, simplified security management — With the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform, you can efficiently deploy and manage your Mac, Windows, and Linux clients on your network, giving you better security visibility across your entire infrastructure. Control policy configuration, deployment, and reporting for all your endpoints from the ePO platform’s single, web-based console.
Proactive threat protection — Uses heuristic analysis, generic protection, and on-access scanning to detect and remove viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, adware, and other unwanted threats before they infect your system. VirusScan for Mac guards against Mac, PC, and Unix-based viruses.
Continuous and on-demand virus scanning — Automatically scans for threats each time a file is accessed. Also scans on demand with file drag and drop.
Seamless security updating — Automatically pulls the latest malware updates from McAfee Labs, our worldwide, 24/7 security research team.
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Defend against known and unknown threats
Stop every type of virus, spyware, adware, and other malicious code that targets Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows. McAfee VirusScan for Mac can even detect compressed malware files and previously unknown viruses.
Enable users to securely deploy Macs
Allow end users to operate Macs in your environment and ensure their data is protected.
Enforce security policies across your network
Get continuous policy enforcement for multiple files, directories, and volumes, including volumes on remote Macs connected through your network.
Simplify security management
Deploy and monitor VirusScan for Mac using the familiar Mac OS X Aqua user interface. Alternatively, use the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform for easy deployment, enforcement, management, and reporting — all from a single console.
Get reliable and fast virus-scanning performance
Check files only when they are accessed to determine whether they’re infected with malware. Initiate on-demand scanning using file drag and drop, and schedule full-disk scans to run at convenient intervals, such as overnight or during off-peak hours.
Guard against email threats
Scan Apple Mail messages and attachments for threats, and protect users when they save or open files from shared network drives.
Stay up-to-date automatically
Count on streaming updates from McAfee Labs — our worldwide, 24/7 security research team — to ensure full compliance and up-to-the-minute protection against viruses, worms, and other threats.
System Requirements
These are minimum system requirements only. Recommended requirements are in parenthesis, where applicable. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.
System Requirements
- CPU: Intel or PowerPC-based Mac
- RAM: 1 GB
- Disk space: 300 MB (500 MB recommended)
Operating Systems
- Mac OS X Lion (10.7 or higher)
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6 or higher)
- Mac OS X Leopard (10.5 or higher)
- Mac OS X Tiger (10.4 or higher)
Customer Stories
Citrix Systems
Citrix reduces risk with McAfee’s integrated security risk management platform.
Highlights
- Deployed quickly and easily, saving $40,000 in deployment costs
- Reduced incident response rate by 40% and overall TCO of security risk management
- Dramatically eased security administration and accelerated patch deployment
- Reduced remediation time by 70%
Purdue University
Purdue University protects 25,000 systems with McAfee.
Highlights
- Protected student and employee PCs and Macs on and off campus
- Accelerated .DAT deployment, reporting, and other tasks
News / Events
News
- McAfee Inc. Extends Industry-Leading Consumer Protection with New Products for Mac
July 20, 2010Topics : SMB, Endpoint Protection
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Blogs
- The Four Phases of Every Attack
Dan Wolff - March 21, 2012
Let’s face it, threats have gotten much more complex; like complex mechanisms they use multiple, consecutive methods to attack. At McAfee, our research teams continually analyze the threat landscape, and define threats in terms of their attack mechanisms, which consistently fall into four categories. First malware needs a way to come in contact with unsuspecting Read more... - RDP+RCE=Bad News (MS12-020)
Jim Walter - March 14, 2012
See March 15 and 16 updates at the end of this blog. —————————————————- The March Security Bulletin release from Microsoft was relatively light in volume. Out of the six bulletins released, only one was rated as Critical. And for good reason. MS12-020 includes CVE-2012-0002. This flaw is specific to the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) present on Read more... - An Update on DNSChanger and Rogue DNS Servers
Jim Walter - March 06, 2012
In late 2011, the FBI released documents and data focusing on “Operation Ghost Click.” This malicious operation, leveraging a variety of DNSChanger-type malware, was defined by the FBI as an “international cyber ring that infected millions of computers.” Associated malware samples and events can be traced back several years, and multiple platforms were targeted. To this day many remain Read more... - Another Overview of Exploit Packs
Francois Paget - February 24, 2012
Recently I blogged about some exploit packs. In that post I showed a table that had 10 common malware kits. I listed the vulnerabilities used, referenced by their Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE) names. There were 45 vulnerabilities in the table. From the data, this idea was taken up by Mila Parkour via her Contagio Read more... - McAfee Q4 Threats Report Shows Malware Surpassed 75 Million Samples in 2011
David Marcus - February 21, 2012
Today we released our Fourth Quarter 2011 Threat Report, revealing that malware surpassed the our estimate of 75 million unique malware samples last year. Although the release of new malware slowed a bit in Q4, mobile malware continued to increase and recorded its busiest year to date. Malware The overall growth of PC-based malware actually Read more...