VIPRE's Active Protection maintains real-time scanning of your Mac, to identify malicious apps and files as they are transferred or opened. This article shows how to enable or disable Active Protection.
Active Protection vs. performance
Active Protection is essential to keeping your Mac protected from current threats, though it may consume some system resources. Turning off Active Protection might be useful in the following situations.
- Performance impact - if you encounter a slower Mac while using certain resource-intensive apps or games
- Testing - if you are managing custom software on your Mac and VIPRE continuously flags benign software as potential threats, the easiest solution might be to turn off Active Protection.
IMPORTANT: If Active Protection is turned off, VIPRE will no longer be able to intercept threats. Other than scans, you will not be protected.
We strongly recommend that instead of turning off Active Protection (which puts you at risk), you should
- Tell VIPRE to ignore specific folders and files by adding them to VIPRE's Ignore Files list (Preferences > Ignored)
- Customize how Active Protection handles threats in VIPRE's Protection settings (Preferences > Protection)
Enable or disable Active Protection
If necessary, you can temporarily turn Active Protection off.
To enable or disable Active Protection
- On the main VIPRE screen, click the Active Protection button to toggle it on (green) or off (yellow).
IMPORTANT: By turning off Active Protection, VIPRE will change to "At Risk". The VIPRE logo will turn yellow to show that you are At Risk and not fully protected.
