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Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July 2015
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Operating system integration
Avira adds two menus to the Mac menu bar: Avira and Help. It also displays a System Tray icon,
clicking which shows the following menu:
The System Tray icon indicates whether protection is enabled or not, by showing an open umbrella
for protection active, closed umbrella for protection inactive.
The Mac Finder context menu is not altered.
Maintenance
If real-time protection or firewall is turned off, a warning message pops up in the top right-hand
corner of the screen:
Additionally, the status display graphic and text both change to show an alert:
Clicking Enable all services immediately reactivates the protection.
Malware signatures can be updated by clicking Update in the program’s System Tray menu.
Non-administrator access
Disabling real-time protection always requires administrator credentials to be entered, regardless of
whether the current user is an administrator or standard user, thus preventing unauthorised access.
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