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Onboarding

After ESET Cyber Security installation, the Onboarding wizard appears—a set of screens to guide you through recommended and mandatory steps for a fully functional ESET Cyber Security.

1.Enable Recommended Protection Settings, select your preferred options and click Continue. For more information about ESET LiveGrid® or Potentially Unwanted Applications, visit our Glossary.

2.Mandatory step: Enable ESET System Extensions. Follow the on-screen instructions to continue the setup.

3.Mandatory step: Allow Proxy Configuration. Click Allow in the alert window.

4.Mandatory step: Grant ESET Cyber Security Full Disk Access. Follow on-screen instructions and allow full disk access.

5.Next, the wizard prompts you to activate ESET Cyber Security. You can find multiple activation options in the Activation chapter.

6.Allow notifications. We recommended you allow notifications to stay informed of any detected threats to your system.


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Skipping the ESET Cyber Security onboarding wizard

By clicking Set Up Later, you can skip the mandatory setup but be aware your protection will only be partially functional.


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Restarting the onboarding wizard

Open Finder > Applications > Control-click (or right-click) the ESET Cyber Security icon > select Show Package Contents from the shortcut menu > open Contents > open Helpers > Onboarding. You can also set up the mandatory security settings manually by following the chapters Allow system extensions and Allow Full disk access.

After installing ESET Cyber Security, you should perform a computer scan to check for malicious code. From the main program window, click Scan > Scan now. See the On-demand computer scan chapter for more information about On-demand computer scans.