User Guide
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Removing other firewalls
Enhanced Intrusion Detection
Personal Firewall's Intrusion Detection System (IDS) detects common attack
patterns and other suspicious activity. Intrusion detection monitors every data
packet for suspicious data transfers or transfer methods and logs this in the
event log.
Enhanced Traffic Analysis
McAfee Personal Firewall Plus offers users a view of both incoming and
outgoing data from their computers, as well as displaying application
connections including applications that are actively “listening” for open
connections. This allows users to see and act upon applications that might be
open for intrusion.
Removing other firewalls
Before you install McAfee Personal Firewall Plus software, you must uninstall any
other firewall programs on your computer. Please follow your firewall program’s
uninstall instructions to do so.
NOTE
If you use Windows XP, you do not need to disable the built-in
firewall before installing McAfee Personal Firewall Plus.
However, we recommend that you do disable the built-in
firewall. If you do not, you will not receive events in the
Inbound Events log in McAfee Personal Firewall Plus.
Setting the default firewall
McAfee Personal Firewall can manage permissions and traffic for Internet
applications on your computer, even if Windows Firewall is detected as running
on your computer.
When installed, McAfee Personal Firewall automatically disables Windows
Firewall and sets itself as your default firewall. You then experience only McAfee
Personal Firewall functionality and messaging. If you subsequently enable
Windows Firewall via Windows Security Center or Windows Control Panel,
letting both firewalls run on your computer might result in partial loss of logging
in McAfee Firewall as well as duplicate status and alert messaging.
