Getting Started with McAfee Internet Security 5.0

nBlock the information from going out.

nDisplay an alert message when any application tries to send the information over the Internet to an unsecure site. This is the response that McAfee Internet Security sets up when you add information to protect in the McAfee Internet Security Interview.

Responding to an Identity Protector Alert Message

During the Interview, McAfee Internet Security asked you to enter your personal and financial information that you want to protect. McAfee Internet Security displays the Identity Protector alert message the first time an application tries to send out this information to an unsecure site.

You can respond to the alert message in the following ways:

If you choose ...

 

Then McAfee Internet Security ...

 

 

 

This time only

w

Allows the information to go out just this time.

 

 

 

Not this time

w

Prevents the information from going out this time.

 

 

 

Why should I change my Identity Protector settings?

You may want to change your settings under the following circumstances:

If you ...

Then use this option

 

 

Are the only person

w Enter all of the information that you want to prevent from

using your PC and

going out and select Allow Always.

you don’t want to be

Create a McAfee Internet Security password. If the

alerted every time.

McAfee Internet Security password is not entered after

 

 

you start Windows, an unauthorized user of your PC

 

can’t view or send out your personal information.

 

 

Have more than one

w Enter all of the information that you may want to prevent

person using your

from going out and select Allow Always or Ask Before

PC.

Blocking. For information that you always want to

 

prevent from going out, select Block Always.

 

Create a McAfee Internet Security password. If the

 

McAfee Internet Security password is not entered after

 

you start Windows, any information entered in Identity

 

Protector will be blocked from being sent out.

 

 

You want to be

w Enter all of the information that you may want to prevent

warned any time this

from going out and select Ask Before Blocking.

information is being

 

sent out.

 

 

 

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