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Security Features
44 McAfee Guard Dog
You can respond to the Internet access alert message in the following ways:
Harmful site alert message
Before you can connect to harmful site, Guard Dog will display an alert
message, “Your browser is visiting Sitename, a Web site that may harm your
PC or data.”
You must immediately close your browser to end your browser’s connection
to this site. The faster you close your browser, the less time the site has to
transfer harmful data to your PC.
If you want to view the Web site anyway, click Continue.
Program starts up another program message
When another program starts to run another program, Guard Dog checks to
see if you’ve authorized this action. If you haven’t allowed the program to
always open the other program, Guard Dog displays an alert message.
Table 6-1.
If you choose Guard Dog does this
This time only Allows the program to access the Internet this time
only and warns you the next time it tries to access the
Internet.
Allow always Allows the program to access the Internet at any time.
In Protection Settings for Gatekeeper, the program is
added to the list of programs allowed to automatically
access the Internet. If you decide later that you do not
want this program to use your Internet connection,
select its name and click Remove.
Not this time Prevents the program from accessing the Internet.
This choice stays in effect until the next time you
restart Windows or for Internet Explorer 4 users, until
you close your browser. Use this option if you want
Guard Dog to warn you the next time the program
tries to access the Internet.