User`s guide

18. DATA PROTECTION
Data protection prevents sensitive data leaks when you are online.
Consider a simple example: you have created a data protection rule that
protects your credit card number. If a spyware software somehow manages
to install on your computer, it cannot send your credit card number via e-mail,
instant messages or web pages. Moreover, your children cannot use it to
buy online or reveal it to people they met on the Internet.
18.1. About data protection
Whether it is your e-mail or your credit card number, when they fall into the
wrong hands such information may cause you damage: you may find yourself
drowning in spam messages or you might be surprised to access an emptied
account.
Based on the rules you create, Data Protection scans the web, e-mail and
instant messaging traffic leaving your computer for specific character strings
(for example, your credit card number). If there is a match, the respective
web page, e-mail or instant message is blocked.
You can create rules to protect any piece of information you might consider
personal or confidential, from your phone number or e-mail address to your
bank account information. Multiuser support is provided so that users logging
on to different Windows user accounts can configure and use their own
rules. If your Windows account is an administrator account, the rules you
create can be configured to also apply when other users of the computer
are logged on to their Windows user accounts.
18.2. Configuring data protection
If you want to use data protection, follow these steps:
1. Open the Bitdefender window.
2. Access the Privacy panel.
3. Click the Data Protection module.
4. Make sure data protection is enabled.
5. Create rules to protect your sensitive data. For more information, please
refer to “Creating data protection rules” (p. 105).
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