User Guide

Quick Tour of Guard Dog
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20 McAfee Guard Dog
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each problem that you want to fix.
5. When you have finished selecting all the fixes you want, click Close.
Updating Guard Dog
Guard Dog can keep up with new viruses and Internet threats when you
update its program files and virus patterns over the Internet. Using McAfee
Software Oil Change technology, you select the updates you want and they are
downloaded to your PC and installed automatically.
Guard Dog is set up to remind you monthly to retrieve updates.
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NOTE: If you purchased Guard Dog on CD, you should run Update even
if you’ve just installed Guard Dog. In the time between when the CD was
created and when you installed it, new virus patterns are likely to be
available.
To update the Guard Dog program or virus pattern files
1. If you normally connect to the Internet before you start your browser,
start your Internet connection now.
2. On the Guard Dog Home screen, click Update.
Oil Change will start and begin looking for updates to Guard Dog. If an
update is available, it is displayed in the Supported Applications and
Drivers dialog box.
3. Select the update. The update description appears in the box below the
list.
4. Click Install to download the update.
5. When the Install dialog box appears, click Auto Install.
6. Follow any instructions that appear on your screen. Click Finish to
complete the AutoInstall.
7. After you have retrieved all the updates you want, click Close.
Viewing the Log
On the Guard Dog Home screen, click Log to view a list of all the interactions
you’ve had with Guard Dog, including the date and time of the action. You
can:
• Print a copy of the Log.