User Guide

Security Features
46 Internet Guard Dog
Why should I change my File Guardian settings?
You may want to change your settings under the following circumstances:
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NOTE: For step-by-step instructions on adding, editing, or removi ng
files in the Guarded Files list, allowing a program to access a guarded
file, or encrypting or decrypting files, see Internet Guard Dog Help.
Table 5-8.
If you Use this option
• Want to be warned when an ActiveX control
looks through the files on your PC.
This may happen legitimately if the control
needs to find a file to use. If you are
concerned, check with the site that sent you
the control.
ActiveX scans my drive
• Want to be warned when an ActiveX control
deletes a files.
This may happen legitimately if the control is
deleting older or temporary files that it uses. If
you are concerned, check with the site that
sent you the control.
ActiveX deletes files from
my drive
• Want to be warned when any program tries to
format any of your drives.
An alert message appears whenever you
format a floppy disk, other removable media,
or hard disk. You may want to turn this option
off temporarily if you are going to format a lot
of disks and don’t want to see any messages.
My drive is being formatted
• Want to be warned when any program
accesses your Windows password files (i.e.,
any file with the .pwl extension located in the
Windows directory).
Windows functions that are
password-protected use these password files.
Password files are accessed
• Want to prevent any program from opening a
file or files. For further protection, you can
have Internet Guard Dog include the file when
you encrypt files.
You can protect individual files, files in a
specific folder, files of the same type, files on
thesamedrive.
Guarded files