User Guide

Customizing Guard Dog
™
32 McAfee Guard Dog
Changing CheckUp Settings
Guard Dog can run a complete or partial CheckUp based on the selections you
make in CheckUp settings.
Table 4-2. CheckUp Settings
Category Name of Check Description
Guard Dog Emergency Disk Reminds you that you don’t have an
Emergency Disk or that the disk you
made may need updating.
Guard Dog
Updates
Reminds you that Guard Dog may need
updating.
Browser Version Warns you if you are not using the most
recent version of Microsoft
®
Internet
Explorer and Netscape Navigator
™
browsers and offers to update your
browser software. (Older browser
versions have more security risks.)
Privacy
Checks
Identity
Protection
Looks for files containing personal
information and lets you protect them.
Cookie Lists the cookies being stored on your
PC and lets you remove them.
Search Filter Looks to see if information exists from
the last search in your Web browser and
allows you to remove that information.
Web Trail Lets you removes evidence of your Web
browsing—cached browser files, all
URLs referenced in your browser’s
preferences and history lists, and
ActiveX controls—from your PC’s hard
drive.
Security
Checks
Gatekeeper Reports the names of the programs that
you have approved for Internet access
over your dial-up or network connection
and lets you change your mind about
allowing automatic Internet access.
File Guardian Searches for sensitive files (such as
e-mail messages or financial files) that
contain information that you want to
keep private and lets you protect them.