McAfee® Host Intrusion Prevention 6.1 Product Guide | Host Intrusion Prevention Client |
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System tray icon
If the Host Intrusion Prevention icons appears in the system tray, it provides access to the client console and indicates the status of the client.
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| Working properly |
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| A potential attack was detected |
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| Turned off, or not working properly |
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A description of the status appears when you place the mouse pointer over the icon.
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Configure | Open the Host Intrusion Prevention client console. |
About... | Open the About Host Intrusion Prevention dialog box, which |
| displays the version number and other product information. |
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If the Allow disabling of features from the tray icon option is applied to the client, some or all of these additional commands are available:
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Restore Settings | Enable all disabled features. Available only if one or more |
| features have been disabled. |
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Disable All | Disable IPS, Firewall, Application Blocking features. Available |
| only if all the features are enabled. |
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Disable IPS | Disable the IPS feature. This includes both Host IPS and |
| Network IPS functionality. Available only if the feature is |
| enabled. |
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Disable Firewall | Disable the Firewall feature. Available only if the feature is |
| enabled. |
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Disable App Blocking | Disable the Application Blocking feature. This includes both |
| Application Creation Blocking and Application Hooking Blocking. |
| Available only if the feature is enabled. |
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Client console
The Host Intrusion Prevention client console gives you access to several configuration options. To open the console, do one of the following:
On the Start menu select Programs McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention.