User manual

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July 2013 www.av-comparatives.org
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The main program window of ESET Cyber
Security Pro uses a similar format to its
Windows counterpart. A narrow left-hand
column serves as a menu bar for important
tasks and features, including Computer Scan,
Update and Help. The larger right-hand
column serves as a status display, with the
status of the individual components
Computer, Firewall, Web and Mail, and
Parental Control, shown as Mac monitor icons:
The icon for Parental Control is clearly
different from the others, as this feature has
to be configured and is not active by default.
There are links to Smart Scan and Update;
licence and update status information are also
displayed. If real-time protection is disabled,
the status page changes, showing a clear
warning, with various items in red:
Protection can be reactivated by clicking
“Enable real-time file system protection”, the
warning symbol in the top right-hand corner,
or the Computer icon.
ESET Cyber Security Pro creates an icon in the
System Tray, with a comprehensive menu of
tasks and features:
By default, there is no addition to the Finder
context menu, although this can be enabled
in the program’s settings.
Overall, we found the interface of ESET Cyber
Security Pro to be exemplary, with important
information and functions easy to find in a
clean and uncluttered window.
Non-administrator access
When we logged on to our test Mac with a
“non-privileged” account (as defined in the
setup process), we were unable to disable the
real-time protection; the window controls are
greyed out and the System Tray menu is
altered so that the item is not available.
We were also unable to uninstall the program
without administrator rights.
Scheduled scanning
A scheduled scan is not configured by default,
but can easily be set by clicking Computer
Scan, Schedule Regular Scan. The user can
decide in the scan options what to do if the
scheduled scan is missed.
AMTSO Feature Settings Checks
Results for the AMTSO Feature Settings Checks
were as follows:
EICAR.COM test file manual download: the
download is blocked, and a warning message
is displayed. This makes reasonably clear that
the threat has been removed: