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:
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This time only | w | Allows the information to go out just this time. |
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Not this time | w | Prevents the information from going out this time. |
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Why should I change my Identity Protector settings?
You may want to change your settings under the following circumstances:
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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 | ||
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| you start Windows, an unauthorized user of your PC | |
| can’t view or send out your personal information. | |
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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. | |
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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 |
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sent out. |
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