Product guide

Configuring access protection settings
Use Access Protection Policies to protect your system’s access points and prevent termination
of McAfee processes.
CAUTION: Failure to enable access protection to prevent McAfee services from being stopped
leaves your system unprotected from numerous malware attacks.
There are two types of access-protection rules you can configure.
• Predefined rules — Allow you to:
• Open the access-protection rule category in one of the user interface consoles.
• Select the block and report action to take if the rule is broken.
• User-defined rules — Allow you to:
• Create the user-defined rule category with one of the user interface consoles.
• Choose which type of blocking the rule enforces: port blocking, file and folder blocking,
or registry blocking.
• Configure the rule details.
• Save the rule and modify it in the future, if needed.
Tasks
Configuring predefined rules
Configuring user-defined rules
Port blocking rule options
File and folder blocking rule options
Registry blocking rule options
Include or exclude specific process options
Removing user-defined rules
Configuring predefined rules
Use predefined rules to protect your computer from unwanted changes. These rules can be
enabled and edited, but they cannot be deleted.
The predefined access protection rules include:
• Anti-spyware Standard Protection
• Anti-spyware Maximum Protection
• Anti-virus Standard Protection
• Anti-virus Maximum Protection
• Anti-virus Outbreak Control
• Common Standard Protection
• Common Maximum Protection
• Virtual Machine Protection
Refer to How access protection rules are defined for details about these predefined access
protection rules.
Configure the predefined access protection rules using one of these user interface consoles.
Part I - Prevention: Avoiding Threats
Protecting your system access points
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