McAfee Security for Mac 1.2.0 Release Notes

Release Notes McAfee Security for Mac 1.2.0 •

About this document

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New features

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Known issues

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Installation instructions

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Find product documentation

About this document Thank you for choosing this McAfee product. This document contains important information about the current release. We strongly recommend that you read the entire document. Important

We do not support the automatic upgrade of a pre-release software version. To upgrade to a production release of the software, you must first uninstall the existing version.

New features Here is a list of features included with this release of the product. What's new in this release •

Support for OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8 operating system (both client and server). Note

When this release is installed on a machine running OS X Server, only Anti-malware and Anti-spyware features are enabled. Application Protection and Desktop Firewall features are not installed.

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The product is digitally signed using Apple's certificate to pass check for Gatekeeper default option Mac App Store and identified developer. For details on Gatekeeper, go to http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/security.html.

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Usability improvements in the Desktop Firewall feature with an option to create partially stateful firewall. For details on the Desktop Firewall changes and sample rules, refer to the KnowledgeBase article KB75663. Important

After upgrading your software to this release, Desktop Firewall rules configured on the earlier versions of the software are deleted.

Existing product features •

Protection from malware.

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Protection from spyware.

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Prevention of unauthorized network access using the Desktop Firewall feature.

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Prevention of unwanted application execution and restriction of unauthorized network access to applications using the Application Protection feature.

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McAfee menulet on the status bar enabling easy access to McAfee Security.

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Enhanced dashboard displaying:

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Latest events of scanning, anti-malware update, prevention of application execution, and denial of network access to applications. Status of on-access scanning, spyware scanning, application protection, and desktop firewall.

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History screen displaying all anti-malware and application protection events.

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Support for quarantining malware.

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Enhanced McAfee Alert and McAfee Notification mechanisms.

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Manageability through McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6.

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Support for specifying an extended set of primary and secondary actions for on-access and on-demand scans.

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Support for specifying regular expression based exclusions for on-access scan and on-demand scan separately.

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MER tool to collect diagnostic data of the software.

Known issues For known issues in this product release, refer to KnowledgeBase article KB75474.

Installation instructions System requirements Category

Requirement

Operating system (both client and server)

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Snow Leopard 10.6.0 or later (32-bit and 64-bit)

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Lion 10.7.0 or later (32-bit and 64-bit)

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Mountain Lion 10.8.0 or later (32-bit and 64-bit)

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CPU: All Intel-based Macs

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Free disk space: 300MB (minimum)

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RAM: 1GB (minimum)

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McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5

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McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6

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McAfee Agent for Mac 4.6 Patch 2

Hardware requirements on client system

McAfee Management software

McAfee Agent version

Files included This package contains the following files: •

MSM120-RTW-.dmg — Standalone Installer

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MSM120-RTW-ePO-.zip — ePolicy Orchestrator Deployment Package

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Readme.html — This file

Standalone installation 1

Double-click MSM120-RTW-.dmg to mount the package.

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Double-click MSM120-RTW-.pkg and follow the on-screen instructions to install this release.

Deployment using ePolicy Orchestrator For instructions on how to deploy this package using ePolicy Orchestrator, refer the ePolicy Orchestrator — Product Guide.

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