Microsoft is rolling out its Windows Defender anti-virus software to Apple’s OS MacOS, with full virus and threat protection at the side of the usual ability to perform quick or full scans.
Defender is presently designed into Windows 10, offering anti-virus protection by default.
While in the method of making a dedicated Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for mac, the package large has renamed its Windows Defender ATP to Microsoft Defender ATP, the corporate informed via a blog-post on Thursday.
” We’ve been operating closely with business partners to enable Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) customers to shield their non-Windows devices whereas keeping a centralized “single pane of glass” expertise.
now we are going a step additional by adding our own solution to the options, starting with a limited preview these days,” Eric Avena, Senior Content Developer, Microsoft wrote in the blog-post.
For businesses, a limited preview would be accessible for trying out the anti-virus protection in environments that have each Windows PCs and Macs.
“Now we are going a step additional by adding our own resolution to the choices, starting with a restricted preview these days,” Avena said.
In the restricted preview, this app provides next-generation anti-malware protection and permits end users to review and perform configuration of their protection.
This includes running scans, including full, quick, and custom path scans, reviewing detected threats and taking actions on threats, together with quarantine, remove, or allow.
Users also will be able to configure advanced settings like disabling or enabling real-time protection, cloud-delivered protection, and automatic sample submission.
Users may add exclusions for files and paths, manage notifications once threats are found and manually check for security intelligence updates.
To keep the client up to date on MacOS, the software giant is using its AutoUpdate package, available on devices running MacOS Mojave, MacOS high sierra, or MacOS Sierra, The Verge reported.
As ATP is limited to businesses, it remains unclear if Microsoft is also planning to bring a consumer version of Microsoft Defender to the mac.
