User manual

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July 2013 www.av-comparatives.org
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Clicking on Details shows that the file has
been “trashed”. We would suggest that it
would be better to display this in the initial
message, so that the user knows the threat
has been removed and no further action is
needed. We note that to see the log file, the
user has to click on the Tasks button, whereas
we would find it much more logical to put this
item under Statistics (subtitle: “See what the
program has done”).
EICAR.COM test file drive-by download: the
file is deleted, and the same message
displayed as above.
EICAR potentially unwanted application: The
same message as above is displayed, but the
file is not deleted or quarantined. Clicking on
Details shows that the file has been
“reported”; there is no other information
given about the file or why it might be
harmful.
AMTSO phishing test page: the page is
displayed. We note that F-Secure is shown
amongst the vendors supporting this feature,
though we assume that this only applies to
Windows programs.
CloudCar test file: the file is downloaded.
Again, F-Secure is shown as supporting this
feature, presumably only in programs for
Windows.
We would suggest that the warning message
shown when a threat is downloaded should be
changed to show clearly whether the threat
has been deleted or not.
Real-time protection test: when we plugged in
a USB flash drive containing Mac malware
samples, the program immediately displayed a
message stating that a harmful item had been
found; the real-time protection had in fact
already detected a number of the malware
samples.
Malware protection/detection test
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Mac detected all the
Mac malware samples used in our test. It also
detected a small portion of our selected
Windows malware. We note that F-Secure does
not make any claim that the program will
detect Windows malware.
Help and Documentation
A 12-page manual in .pdf format is available
to download from the F-Secure website. There
are in fact only 7 pages of text, the other 5
pages being index or cover pages. However,
given the simple nature of the program, we
feel there is sufficient explanation provided.
Although it is not really necessary in a
document of this size, the manual has been
indexed with a clickable contents page, and
bookmarked, making accessing particular
sections extremely easy.
The help function accessible from the Help
button on the main program window appears
to have identical content to the manual, but
as a page of the F-Secure website. There is no
local help function as such.
We would describe the help features for F-
Secure Anti-Virus for Mac as simple but
adequate.
Summary
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Mac is a simple
antivirus program with all essential features.
It features excellent Mac malware recognition
and real-time protection, and receives our
Approved Security Product award. We would
however suggest that the program interface
could be better adapted to the Mac software,
and that malware warnings might be clearer.