Your Antivirus for Mac responds to malicious software in four different ways. It will normally try each response in this order:
- Clean
Removes infected files, security threats, or website tracking files from files where it was hidden.
After cleaning, these files no longer pose a security risk, so you can freely open, edit, or share them.
Always let Antivirus for Mac try to clean unsafe files.
- Quarantine
Some forms of threat will not hide inside a file, but instead, pretend to do something useful. The program cannot clean these files, and must isolate them instead. Once quarantined, malicious software cannot cause any harm.
- Delete
If it cannot clean or quarantine the detected threat, it will try to delete the file instead.
- Detect
If it cannot clean, quarantine or delete the detected threat, it will make a record of the threat in the logs. You can then try to delete the file yourself.
You can change how Antivirus for Mac responds to threats in the Scan Settings window.