What is McAfee Threat Prevention? McAfee Endpoint Security Threat Prevention prevents threats from accessing systems, scans files automatically when they are accessed, and runs targeted scans for malware on client systems. Similar to VSE - which includes Access Protection, On Access Scan, On Demand Scan and extra Exploit Prevension Key features of Threat Prevention The key features of Threat Prevention protect against threats entering your environment, detect malware in your environment, and correct issues by cleaning or repairing infected files. Protect Protect your systems from intrusions before they gain access to your environment using these Threat Prevention features. Access Protection — Protect against unwanted changes to client systems by restricting access to specified files, shares, registry keys, registry values, and preventing or restricting processes and services from executing threat behavior. Exploit Prevention — Threat Prevention uses signatures in content upda...