Can F-secure for Mac detect malware?

Eemeli

I have purhaced F-secure for my Mac. Is F-secure actually good for Macs? Can it detect malware?

PawełP

Hello @Eemeli

We welcome you to our forum and thank you for your post.

The F-Secure app includes all the protection features you need on your Mac in just one single app.

With F-Secure Total, you can do the following:

• Protect yourself and your entire family and friends online
• Protect your browsing, online banking and shopping
• Secure your connection in wireless networks
• Stop tracking attempts online
• Protect yourself and your devices against malware and other online threats
• Access geo-blocked content
• Protect your own and your family's personal information against cyber crime

The product protects the computer from programs that may steal personal information, damage the computer, or use it for illegal purposes.

By default, the virus protection handles all harmful files automatically as soon as it finds them so that they can cause no harm.

The product scans your local hard drives, any removable media (such as portable drives or DVDs), and any content that you download.

DeepGuard provides an additional layer of security to help protect your personal data against being deleted, ransomed, or stolen by harmful applications.

Automatic scanning protects your computer in real time by removing harmful files from your computer before they can damage it.

When your computer tries to access a file, automatic scanning scans the file for malware before it allows your computer to access the file.

If automatic scanning finds any harmful content, it puts the file to Trash before it can cause any harm.

We recommend that you keep automatic scanning turned on all the time. You can also scan files manually and set up scheduled scans if you want to make sure that there are no harmful files on your computer or to scan files that you have excluded from the automatic scan.

F-Secure enables manual scan as well.

The full computer scan scans all internal and external hard drives for viruses, spyware, and potentially unwanted applications. It also checks for items that are possibly hidden by a rootkit. The full computer scan can take a long time to complete. You can also scan only the parts of your system that contain installed applications to find and remove unwanted applications and harmful items on your computer more efficiently.

If you are suspicious of certain files on your computer, you can scan only those files or folders. These scans will finish a lot quicker than a scan of your whole computer. For example, when you connect an external hard drive or USB flash drive to your computer, you can scan it to make sure that they do not contain any harmful files.

We hope it will be helpful.

Best regards.

Pawel