McAfee INTERNET GUARD DOG 3.0, User Manual

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User’s Guide 45
Security Features
You can respond to the alert message in the following ways:
Drive format alert message
When a format command is started, Internet Guard Dog doesn’t know
whether you told your PC to format a Zip disk or whether a rogue ActiveX
control has started to format your hard disk. You know that this activity is
legitimate when you start the formatting command or if you know that a
program you are using needs to format a hard disk (or a Zip or Jaz disk).
When Internet Guard Dog detects a format command, it displays an alert
message that tells you which program started the format command.
If you don’t know why your disk is being formatted, note the name of the
program in the alert message and then turn off your computer using its power
switch. If the program has the letters OCX as part of its name, it is an ActiveX
control. Do not restart your browser until you have run an Internet Guard Dog
CheckUp and removed the suspicious ActiveX control from your PC.
Click
Continue
if you want the program to format your disk.
Table 5-7.
If you choose Internet Guard Dog
Not this time Stops the ActiveX control from running this
time.
If you change your mind, reload the page in your
browser and click Allow this time the next time
Internet Guard Dog displays its ActiveX delete
message.
This time only Permits the ActiveX control to delete files just
this time.