User Guide

Quick Tour of Internet Guard Dog™
26 Internet Guard Dog
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each problem that you want to fix.
5. When you have finished, click the Back or the Hom e button to return to
the Internet Guard Dog Home screen.
What Internet Guard Dog does while your PC is
running
While you use your PC, Internet Guard Dog is on the lookout for potential
privacy and security problems and takes action when it finds a problem.
(Internet Guard Dog uses the information stored in Protection Settings to
determine what to monitor and how to react.) You can tell when Internet
GuardDogisworkingbecauseitsiconappearsintheWindowstaskbaras
shown in Figure 3-6.
Figure 3-6. The Internet Guard Dog icon in the taskbar.
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NOTE: Ifyouseean InternetGuardDogalertmessage,see“Responding
to Internet Guard Dog alert messages”later in this chapter.
Using the Internet Guard Dog shortcut menu
Evenwhenyouaren’trunningthemainInternetGuardDogprogram,youstill
have quick access to several features using the shortcut menu. Right-click the
Internet Guard Dog icon on the Windows taskbar to display this menu. You
canthendoanyofthefollowing:
• Start the Internet Guard Dog main program.
• Displ ay Browser Buddy, which lets you retrieve your Internet passwords
anddisplays statistics onhowmany cookies havebeenallowedorblocked,
and how often it has cleared search information.
• Display Windows help for Internet Guard Dog.
• Encrypt and decrypt files that File Guardian protects.
• Close the part of Internet Guard Dog that m onitors your PC while
Windows runs.
Right-click to display the
Internet Guard Dog shortcut
menu