McAfee MTP09EMB1RAA - Total Protection 2009, User Manual

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McAfee SecurityCenter
McAfee SecurityCenter allows you to monitor your computer's
security status, know instantly whether your computer's virus,
spyware, e-mail, and firewall protection services are up-to-date,
and act on potential security vulnerabilities. It provides the
navigational tools and controls you need to coordinate and
manage all areas of your computer's protection.
Before you begin configuring and managing your computer's
protection, review the SecurityCenter interface and make sure
that you understand the difference between protection status,
protection categories, and protection services. Then, update
SecurityCenter to ensure that you have the latest protection
available from McAfee.
After your initial configuration tasks are complete, you use
SecurityCenter to monitor your computer's protection status. If
SecurityCenter detects a protection problem, it alerts you so that
you can either fix or ignore the problem (depending on its
severity). You can also review SecurityCenter events, such as virus
scanning configuration changes, in an event log.
Note: SecurityCenter reports critical and non-critical protection
problems as soon as it detects them. If you need help diagnosing
your protection problems, you can run
McAfee Virtual
Technician
.
In this chapter
SecurityCenter features ..............................................6
Using SecurityCenter ..................................................7
Fixing or ignoring protection problems ....................16
Working with alerts .....................................................21
Viewing events.............................................................27
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