Quick Heal Total Security for Mac provides a range of settings to help you manage product updates, protect the application from unauthorized changes, configure Internet connectivity, and manage activity reports. You can access these settings from the Settings section in the navigation panel of the Quick Heal Total Security Dashboard, regardless of the feature you are using.
The default settings are configured to provide optimal protection for your Mac. You can customize them according to your requirements, but it is recommended that you keep security-related protection options enabled.
Automatic Update
Automatic Update helps keep Quick Heal Total Security for Mac up to date with the latest virus signatures and product updates. Regular updates help the product identify and protect your Mac against newly detected malware and emerging threats.
When Automatic Update is enabled, the product checks for available updates and downloads them when your Mac is connected to the Internet. You can also choose to get updates from a specified local or network folder. Automatic Update is enabled by default, and it is recommended that you keep it enabled to receive updates regularly.
Configuring Automatic Update
Follow these steps to configure Automatic Update according to your requirements:
- Open Quick Heal Total Security for Mac.
- In the navigation panel, click Settings.
- Turn Automatic Update ON, then click Automatic Update.
- On the Automatic Update screen, turn Show notification to YES to receive notifications when new updates are received. This option is enabled by default.
- Select one of the following update options:
- Download from Internet: Downloads updates from the Quick Heal server. This option is selected by default.
- Pick from specified path: Lets you get updates from a local or network folder. This option is useful when your Mac is not connected to the Internet. After selecting it, browse to the shared location containing the updates.
- Turn Save update files to YES if you want to save a copy of downloaded updates in a local or network folder. This option is available when Download from Internet is selected.
- Click Browse to specify the folder where you want to save a copy of the downloaded updates.
- Click Save to save your settings.
Self Protection
Self Protection helps prevent unauthorized users from altering or tampering with Quick Heal Total Security files, folders, configurations, and list entries. Keeping this feature enabled helps protect the product and its configured settings from unwanted changes.
Self Protection is turned ON by default, and it is recommended that you keep it enabled.
Configuring Self Protection
Follow these steps to configure Self Protection:
- Open Quick Heal Total Security for Mac.
- In the navigation panel, click Settings.
- Turn Self Protection ON if it is not already enabled.
Password Protection
Password Protection helps restrict access to Quick Heal Total Security settings so that unauthorized users cannot make changes to your product configuration. You can enable this feature to add password-based access protection to your settings.
Password Protection is turned OFF by default. It is recommended that you enable it to help prevent unauthorized changes to your security settings.
Configuring Password Protection
Follow these steps to enable Password Protection:
- Open Quick Heal Total Security for Mac.
- In the navigation panel, click Settings.
- Turn Password Protection ON. The password protection screen appears.
- Enter a password in the New Password field, then enter it again in Retype New Password to confirm it.
- Click Save to save your settings.
If you are setting the password for the first time, the Existing Password field is disabled.
Changing the Password
You can change your Password Protection password when you need to update your existing password. Follow these steps:
- Open Quick Heal Total Security for Mac.
- Go to Settings.
- Click Password Protection.
- Enter your existing password when prompted.
- Enter the new password and confirm it.
- Click Save to save your changes.
Disabling Password Protection
If you no longer want to restrict access to your settings with a password, you can turn off Password Protection. Follow these steps:
- Open Quick Heal Total Security for Mac.
- Go to Settings.
- Click Password Protection.
- Turn Password Protection OFF.
- Enter your password for authentication if prompted.
- Click Save to save your changes.
Proxy Support
Proxy Support lets you configure the proxy connection used for Internet access. If your network uses a proxy server or a SOCKS Version 4 or SOCKS Version 5 connection, you can specify the proxy type, server address, port number, and user credentials required to connect.
These settings are relevant to the following Quick Heal modules:
- Registration Wizard
- Mac Security Update
- Web Security, including Browser Protection, Phishing Protection, and Parental Control
Configuring Proxy Support
Follow these steps to configure Proxy Support:
- Open Quick Heal Total Security for Mac.
- In the navigation panel, click Settings.
- Click Proxy Support.
- Turn Proxy support ON. The proxy type, server, port, and user credential fields become available.
- Select the required proxy type: HTTP, SOCKS V4, or SOCKS V5.
- In Enter Server, enter the proxy server’s IP address or domain name.
- In Enter port, enter the proxy server’s port number. The default port is 80 for HTTP and 1080 for SOCKS V4 and SOCKS V5.
- Enter your user name and password credentials.
- Click Save to save your settings.
Report Settings
Quick Heal Total Security maintains reports of important product activities, including scan results, updates, and changes to feature settings. Report Settings lets you decide how long these reports are retained.
You can enable automatic deletion and specify the number of days after which reports should be removed. If you want to keep all generated reports, you can turn off automatic deletion. By default, reports are set to be deleted after 30 days.
Configuring Report Settings
Follow these steps to configure Report Settings:
- Open Quick Heal Total Security for Mac.
- In the navigation panel, click Settings.
- Click Report Settings.
- Turn Automatically delete reports ON to remove reports after the specified number of days. To retain all generated reports, turn this option OFF.
- If automatic deletion is enabled, select the required period from the Delete after list.
- Click Save to save your settings.