User Guide

Quick Tour of Internet Guard Dog™
16 Internet Guard Dog
What information does Internet Guard Dog ask me to
enter?
TheInternetGuardDog interviewasks you toenterthe personalandfinancial
information that you want to protect. All the information you enter into
InternetGuard Dogis storedin encrypted formon yourh ard disk— it is never
sent to McAfee Software.
You may want to gather your personal information before you start the
interview. During the interview, Internet Guard Dog allows you to enter:
• A password that you can use to protect your Internet Guard Dog
information.
• Personal and financial information that you want to protect from being
sent out over the Internet without your knowledge:
•Name
• Address
• Social Security number
• Telephone number
• E-mail address
• Other financial numbers such as bank account, brokerage account,
credit card, phone card, and so on.
• Any Web site login names and passwords that you want to store in
Password Manager.
• Information about other users of your computer. If you are the
Administrator,you cancreate us er profilesand s et protection s ettings that
Internet Guard w ill use whenever the user is browsing the Internet via
your computer. See “How Internet Guard Dog Administrator works” on
page 17.
For optimal protection by Identity Protector,include alldashes(such as Social
Security number, bank account numbers, brokerage accounts, and ATM
cards). For example, if you enter 123-45-6789 as your social security number,
Guard Dog will recognize thenumberwithorwithoutthedashes.Ifyouenter
123456789, Guard Dog won’t alert you if the number is sent out with dashes
(123-45-6789). Credit cardsdo not need dashes because you ty pe thenumbers
into separate boxes.