Support recommends that you set them to Block after you confirm that any reported process violations must actually be blocked. Prevent termination of McAfee processes Enhanced Self-Protectionīy default, VSE 8.8 Patch 9 adds these rules in Report mode only.Prevent modification of McAfee Scan Engine files and settings Enhanced Self-Protection.Prevent modification of McAfee Common Management Agent files and settings Enhanced Self-Protection.Prevent modification of McAfee files and settings Enhanced Self-Protection.In the right pane, view the following options:.On the Access Protection tab, select Common Standard Protection.Click Start, Programs, McAfee, VirusScan Console.
VSE 8.8 Patch 9 improves the security of these rules by providing a companion for each that locks down the third-party process name exclusions so that they are not excluded. Prevent termination of McAfee processes.Prevent modification of McAfee Scan Engine files and settings.Prevent modification of McAfee Common Management Agent files and settings.Prevent modification of McAfee files and settings.The exclusions allow a process that would normally be blocked from an action, to successfully perform that action if the executable was renamed to an excluded process name. These rules included exclusions that were previously defined by a process name only. Four Access Protection (AP) rules provide critical protection to McAfee resources.