McAfee Firewall
Other McAfee Firewall features
McAfee Firewall settings security check
Examines your firewall security settings, allowing you to rectify weaker settings before hackers get a chance to exploit them. The McAfee Firewall Settings Security Check flags and suggests changes to help you keep your system set to optimal security.
If Security Check detects an issue, click Fix and McAfee Firewall helps you analyze and correct potential problems.
Home networking wizard
Helps make setting up protections for your PCs sharing an Internet connection a breeze, providing helpful wizards to walk you through the process.
All networking media and hardware (such as cables and network adapters) must be installed on each computer in order for this wizard to locate your computers.
Password protection
Prevent others from tampering with your firewall settings by locking access to them with password security. Also helps keep your firewall protections secure by preventing the firewall from being shut down without your password.
About Visual Trace
Visual Trace is a
At the simplest level Visual Trace shows you how packets (data) get from your computer to another computer on the Internet. You see all the nodes (equipment of various types on the Internet that is passing traffic) between your computer and the trace target.
There are many situations where you need this information. Visual Trace is a useful tool when troubleshooting connections or just verifying that everything is working OK. There is also a wealth of information presented by Visual Trace, including the domain owners, relative locations, and in many cases, the location of nodes.
Besides using Visual Trace to look for weak spots in a connection you can use it to:
nDiscover whether you can't reach a site due to a failure at your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or further into the Internet
nDetermine the point of a network failure that is preventing you from reaching a Web site.
78 McAfee Internet Security 5.0
