User Guide

McAfee Internet Guard Dog
184 McAfee Office
If during the In terview, you accepted Internet G uard Dog’ s
reco mmendation on how to respond to coo kies, Cooki e b locker will:
• Automatically allow cookies to be accepted from direct sites.
• Display an alert mes sage when an indirect sites tries to set a cookie.
What Identity Protector does
Itiseasytoforget thatwhenyousendinformationoverthe Internet,itdoesn’t
go directly from your computer to the computer that is storing the Web page
information. Instead, the information can pass through many computers
before it reaches its final destination.
Identity P rotector can keep y our software from sending any personal
information overthe Internetto an unsecure site.Although youdon’t have to
worryaboutasitewhenitusinga secureconne ct ion,therearemanyWebsi tes
that use a secure connection only when dealing with credit card transactions.
Ifmorethan one personis using yourcomputer,m akesurethat youcreate an
Internet Guard D og password. If the personusing your computer doesn’t
enter the Internet G uard Dog password, it automatically replaces any
protectedpersonal information sent to an unsecure site with the text, “xxxx.”
For example, if your child tries to or der the late st CD witho ut e ntering your
InternetGuardD og password,it replacesyourc reditcardnumberwith“xxxx
xxxx xxxx xxxx.”
IdentityP rotector 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 mes sage when any application t ries to send the
information over the Internet to an unsecure site. This is the response that
Internet Guard Dog sets up when you add information to protect in the
Internet Guard Dog Interv iew.