User Guide

Quick Tour of Guard Dog
™
18 McAfee Guard Dog
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Web-based Help commands.
Opening and closing the Guard Dog Home screen
After you install Guard Dog, the Home screen opens automatically the first
time. You can open it yourself in several different ways.
To open the Guard Dog Home screen
• Do one of the following:
• Click Start in the Windows taskbar, point to Programs, point to
Guard Dog, then click Guard Dog.
• Double-click the Guard Dog shortcut icon on the Windows desktop.
• Right-click the Guard Dog icon in the Windows taskbar, then click
Run Guard Dog.
To close the Guard Dog Home screen
• Click the button in the upper-right corner of the Guard Dog Home
screen.
Part of Guard Dog remains active to monitor your PC for potential
danger. For more information, see “What Guard Dog does while your PC
is running” on page 21.
Launch the Guard Dog help file. Help, then either Contents and
Index or Help for this screen
Display your Guard Dog version number. Help, then About
Read virus descriptions. Help, then Virus Encyclopedia
Close the Guard Dog Home screen.
(This doesn’t affect the monitoring portion of
Guard Dog, which continues to run.)
Close button in the
upper-right corner of
the Guard Dog
window.
Table 3-1. Actions you can perform in the Home screen (Continued)
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