| | Getting Around | |
| Table 1. | Menus | |
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| Menu | Menu choices | |
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| | • Close—Closes the Agent main console. | |
| File | • Exit Sygate Agent—Exits the Agent, effectively turning off security on | |
| | your machine. | |
•Block All—Blocks all network traffic on your machine. If you use this command but then want to unblock the traffic, click the system tray icon
Security | on the taskbar and click Normal. |
•Normal—Blocks only selective traffic. This is the default configuration, and is a prudent choice.
•Logs—Opens the Logs.
•Options—Opens the Options dialog box, which contains many security options, including email alerts, Network Neighborhood browsing rights, and log file configuration.
•Advanced Rules—Opens the Advanced Rules dialog box, where you can set very specific rules for implementing security on your Agent.
Tools | • Update Signature—Not enabled for the Agent. |
| • Automatically Start Service—Not enabled for the Agent. |
| • Test Your System Security—Opens the Sygate Technologies scan site so |
| you can test the effectiveness of the Agent. |
| • Disable/Enable Sygate Security Agent—Disables and reenables the |
| Agent. The Agent is running but not protecting your system while it is |
| disabled. |
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| The View menu gives users the option to alter the display of software programs in |
| the Running Applications field: |
•Large Icons—Displays 32x32 icons in the field. Each icon represents a software application or a system service.
•Small Icons—Displays 16x16 icons.
View Both the large and small icon displays provide the full name of the application below the icon itself, and the icons are displayed in a “corkboard” fashion.
•List—Provides small icon representations, with the icons displayed in a standard list.
•Applications Details—Provides not only a list of all running applications, but also useful information on the version number and location path of each application.