Gatekeeper on Mountain Lion

On Jul 25th, 2012, Apple finally released the Mountain Lion. You could pay $19.99 dollars from Mac App Store to get the OS X 10.8. Only one year past, this new OS X added up over 200 new features, and one of the major highlight is the Gatekeeper, which act as its name described, to be the first line of defense to help protecting your apps and system security.

Before Mountain Lion released out, people worried about those apps which are not brought from App Store may not be allowed running in OS X. Although it keeps the system more security, that would make Apple become the monopoly in this market. But now, people could be satisfied that Mountain Lion used another way to keep the app security – Gatekeeper.

Different from Reminders and Notes, which could be displayed in Dock, Gatekeeper appears in the security & privacy item from System Preferences. It displayed as 3 options:

Allow applications downloaded from:

Mac App Store

Mac App Store and identified developers

Anywhere

We could clearly catch the point that users could freely decide whether to use the protection or not. To both keep the app security and get more varies apps, the second options are recommended to tick. After ticking the second options, those apps are not identified by Apple would not be allowed to be installed.

Then this “identified developer” becomes very important on security protection. It could help most developers who do not belong to Apple to continue developing their app; and for Apple, it could make the whole market to be more opener and more competitive. Still for all OS X users, it improves the safety of computer operation.

Although it is a huge step for security protection, it is not all for safety. If a user really hopes to use some app without identification, he always has the methods. So the release of Gatekeeper do not mean the lastday of Antivirus app.

This article only describes the Gatekeeper feature, to help you catch more new added features, we have wrote major updates of OS X Mountain Lion before, you could go there to check for more.

Magican is updated to version 1.1.3

Only one week after Magican version 1.1.0 was released, users began to suggest our support team to integrate more functions into security center. Then Magican quickly worked on this and released the Magican version 1.1.3 on July 20

Magican version 1.1.3 helps users automatically detect files downloaded from Safari, Chrome and Mail. This makes Magican defense to be more active, but not just wait till Mac was attacked. Then with the function of auto shut down after full scanning, users could do something more effective instead of long time waiting while Magican is doing full scan. Still Magican optimized its memory usage to leave more memory for Mac running and make it supported for OS X 10.8.


view more: http://www.magicansoft.com/magican.html

How to clean up Mac effectively

As we know, Mac cleaner is one of the major feature in Magican. Different from other single-purpose cleaner, it contains multiple items for better cleaning. To help users clean up Mac effectively, we offer the detailed operation ways as below.

One-click to detect useless files and Trojan

Magican always highlights the easy-to-use operation of “one-click”. As it assumes from denotation, users could finish detection by clicking the quick scan button in welcome page. Then both garbage and Trojan could be scanned out by one-click clean.

 

Pick up the files which take much space

It looks messy while cleaning up Mac, for lots of place need to be cleaned. Actually it is not that complex; the most common space occupier always are leaded by the installed but not used app, app left-over, logs and caches, browsers caches and duplicated files.

Users could go to uninstall item in software center to get the app, and then click uninstall to have all its related files removed with no leftover remained.

 

Go to the cleaner part to select the items that take spaces largely. After scanning, go to “Results…” to check the details and then clean up the ticked files.

Monitor CPU and memory stat

While cleaning up Mac, CPU and memory monitor are always ignored. But actually deleting files is not the all for cleaning up Mac. We should monitor the CPU and memory usage; sometimes we could find that even the PAM and memory are in law usage, system still runs slow. Then you could check the inactive memory usage from pie chart format in Stat or view the circled icon on floating window. If it turns into red, you need to click it to release the inactive memory.

Hopes these operations in Magican could help you get a better Mac.

How to properly kill virus by Magican?

Since Mac was infected by Flashback Trojan,the slogan “It doesn’t get PC viruses” was annulled from Apple’s official website. It means the situation that Mac cannot be infected by virus has becomea history; Mac still needs the protection of antivirus app. Many Mac users may have not used any antivirus app before, so they don’t have a clearly understanding of this kind of app. Magican is one of the antivirus software. In order to help Magican users kill virus effectively, we will conduct you howto kill viruses with Magican.

Although Mac can catch virus, it rarely occurs. Users don’t need to detect virus in real time. If you want to detect whether Mac has been infected or not, you can use Magican for half a month. Before detecting virus, you should make sure the virus database is updated to the latest, which could help you to scan out the latest virus threats.

Magican enables Antivirus in three scanning modes: Quick scan, Full scan and Custom scan. Quick scan can detect and remove virus in seconds, user still can complete removing virus in the homepage, but it can only kill four main viruses, including Flashback Trojan, Mackontrol,Sabpab and Olyx. The feature of Quick scan function is just same as Magican AntiTrojan.

If you want to remove more viruses, Full scan and Custom scan can help you detect more than 30 kinds of virus. However, Full scan is time-consuming, for it can detect more virus than Quick scan and it will scan all the files of your Mac. If you have too many files on your Mac, then the scanning process may take half an hour.

Compared to Full scan, Custom scan can complete virus scanning in a short time. Therefore we propose to use Custom scan to detect virus for specified directory. Magican users only need to drag afile or folder to Custom scan, and then Magican will finish the scan in a shorttime.

Some file may do not have a right signature, and then Magican may identified it as a virus. If users make sure the file is safe, you can added the file into trust list to avoid being detected as virus.

Properly using the Magican security center can help Mac users kill virus effectively and safely. Magican is one of the best ways to ensure the security of all your files and personal information.