Access Protection

Access protection prevents unwanted changes to your computer by restricting access to specified ports, files, shares, registry keys, and registry values. It also protects McAfee processes by preventing users from stopping them. This protection is critical before and during outbreaks.

This feature uses predefined rules and categories and user-defined rules to specify which items can and cannot be accessed. Each rule can be configured to block or report, or block and report access violations when they occur. Predefined rules and categories are subject to content updates via the McAfee update sites.

Note: The access protection feature uses the on-access scanner to detect access violations. The on-access scanner must be enabled for the access protection feature to detect attempts to access ports, files, shares, and registry keys and registry values.

Contents

Related concepts
Preventing threat access
How access threats are stopped
Related reference
Accessing the policy configuration interface
Related information
Control access to the user interface