User Guide

Privacy Features
34 Internet Guard Dog
If more than one person is usingyour computer, make sure that youcreate an
Internet Guard Dog password. If the person using your computer doesn’t
enter the Internet Guard Dog password, it automatically replaces any
protected personal information sent to an unsecure site with the text, “xxxx.”
For example, if your child tries to order the latest CD without entering your
InternetGuard Dog password, itreplaces yourcreditcardnu mber with “xxxx
xxxx xxxx xxxx.”
Identity Protector offers three optional responses whenever an application
tries to send out information over the Internet to an unsecure site:
• Let the information go out.
• Block the information from going out.
• Display an alert message when any application tries to send the
information over the Internet to an unsecure site. This is the response that
Internet Guard D og sets up when you add information to protect in the
Internet Guard D og Interview.
Responding to an Identity Protector alert message
During the Interview, Internet Guard Dog asked you t o enter your personal
and financial information that you want to protect. Internet Guard Dog
displays the Identity Protector alert message the first time an applicationtries
to send out this information to an unsecure site.
You can respond to the alert message in the following ways:
Table 4-3.
If you choose Internet Guard Dog
This time only Allows the information to go out just this time.
Not t his time Prevents the information from going out this
time.