User Guide

Privacy Features
40 McAfee Guard Dog
The files left on your PC can be viewed by others and depending on your
browser’s settings, can take up many megabytes of disk space.
If you accepted Guard Dog’s recommendation during the interview, Guard
Dog displays the Web Trail Cleaner alert message when you close your
browser.
Responding to the Web Trail Cleaner alert message
You can respond to the alert message in the following ways.
By default Guard Dog selects the sites that are not bookmarked (that is, part of
your list of favorite sites) because it is less likely that you’ll return to these sites.
If you don’t return to a site, the cached files for the site are never used
again—they just sit and take up disk space until they are ultimately deleted by
your browser.
If you later want to delete the files that you’ve left behind, run the Guard Dog
CheckUp.
URLs visited Display a list sites that you’ve visited using Web
addresses.
History Display a list sites that you’ve visited using Web
site names.
Table 5-6.
If you choose Guard Dog does this
Clean Deletes all of the cached files, history and URL
information associated with the selected Web
site (Domain).
Select a site for cleaning by selecting the check
box next to the site name. To sort by a column
heading, click the heading name.
Don’t clean Closes the Alert message and continues closing
your browser.
Table 5-5.
Your browser uses To