McAfee OFFICE 3.1 User manual

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McAfee Office

Version 3.1

User’s Guide

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Table of Contents

Chapter1. WelcometoMcAfeeOffice...........................15

Programsandfeatures............................................15

Centralinterface.............................................15

McAfeeVirusScan ...........................................16

McAfeeUtilities..............................................16

McAfeeUnInstaller...........................................17

McAfeeInternetGuardDog....................................18

McAfeeFirewall .............................................19

McAfeePGPPersonalPrivacy .................................19

Otherfeatures ...................................................20

McAfeeVirtualOffice .........................................20

McAfeeontheWeb ..........................................20

McAfeeWebView............................................20

Improvements ...................................................21

Wheretogoformoreinformation...................................21

Chapter2. InstallatingMcAfeeOffice ...........................23

Systemrequirements .............................................23

Individualproductrequirements ...............................23

Installation......................................................24

Chapter3. McAfeeVirusScan..................................27

HowdoesVirusScansoftwarework?................................27

WhatcomeswithVirusScansoftware? ..............................27

What’snewwithVirusScan? .......................................31

StartingtheVirusScanapplication ..................................33

DisplayingtheVirusScanapplicationmainwindow................33

Ifyoususpectyouhaveavirus... ...................................37

WhatdoestheVShieldscannerdo?.................................40

WhyusetheVShieldscanner?.................................41

Browserande-mailclientsupport ..............................42

EnablingorstartingtheVShieldscanner.............................42

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UsingtheVShieldconfigurationwizard ..............................47

UsingtheVShieldshortcutmenu ...................................51

Chapter 4. McAfee Utilities . . . .................................53

McAfeeUtilitiescentralwindow ....................................53

McAfeeUtilitiesProperties ........................................54

CommonDialogstab .........................................54

IconAnimationtab...........................................54

WindowPatternstab .........................................55

DiskToolstab...............................................55

StartMenutab ..............................................56

TrashGuardtab .............................................56

FileShreddertab ............................................57

QuickCopytab..............................................57

ZipFileManagertab..........................................58

RepairandRecover ..............................................58

DiskMinder.................................................58

UsingDiskMinder .......................................58

CustomizingDiskMinderProperties........................60

CreatingandrevertingtoanUndofile ......................61

UsingDiskMinderinDOS ................................61

McAfeeImage...............................................62

CreatinganImageofyourdisks ...........................62

SettingImageProperties .................................63

RestoringdrivesfromanImagefile.........................63

RescueDisk ................................................65

UsingaRescueDisk .....................................66

DiskMinderinDOS ......................................66

FirstAid....................................................66

Using CheckUp .........................................66

UsingUniversalUndo ....................................68

UsingAskAdvisor.......................................70

CreatingaRescueDisk...................................70

DiscoverPro ................................................71

DiscoverProwindow ....................................71

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Workingwithadvancedinformation ........................72

SpecifyingDiscoverProsettings...........................74

Usingthemulti-windowviews .............................74

Undelete ...................................................75

CleanandOptimize...............................................76

CleanupWizard .............................................76

DiskTune ..................................................76

UsingDiskTunetodefragmentorconsolidateadisk..........77

Theharddiskmap.......................................78

Settingadvancedoptions.................................78

Specifyingfilecategories .................................80

RegistryWizard .............................................82

Backing up & Restoring the Registry .......................83

CleaningtheRegistry ....................................84

RepairingtheRegistry ...................................84

TuninguptheRegistry ...................................85

RegistryPro ................................................86

FindingaRegistryentry ..................................86

Findingorphans.........................................87

EditingaRegistryentry ..................................87

ImportingaRegistryfile ..................................87

ExportingaRegistryfile ..................................87

RefreshingtheRegistrydatabase ..........................87

LaunchRocket ..............................................88

QuickCopy .................................................88

ShortcutWizard .............................................89

Prevent and Protect . . . ...........................................89

CrashProtector .............................................89

RecoveringfromanApplicationError.......................89

Recovering a crashed, locked-up, or hung application .........90

SelectingCrashProtectorProperties .......................91

Deactivating Crash Protector ..............................92

WinGauge ..................................................93

Themostimportantgauges ...............................93

Workingwithgauges.....................................94

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ManipulatingtheWinGaugewindow ........................95

ChangingWinGaugeproperties............................97

Savingandloadinggaugesettings ........................101

VirusScan .................................................102

TrashGuard ...............................................102

SpecifyingTrashGuardProperties ........................102

Safe&Sound ..............................................103

RegularbackupswithSafe&Sound .......................103

Creatingautomaticbackups..............................104

Definingyourbackupstrategy............................104

Creating a backup set ...................................105

Restoringfilesfromabackupset .........................108

Modifyingordeletingbackupsets.........................109

Repairingandrebuildingabackupset .....................110

SecureandManage .............................................111

EZSetup ..................................................111

Systemtab ............................................111

Explorertab ...........................................113

Run/Add/Removetab ...................................115

SendTotab ...........................................116

ContextMenutab.......................................116

LaunchPad................................................117

StartingLaunchPad ....................................118

Adding,updating,andremovingicons.....................118

ManipulatingtheLaunchPadwindow......................118

PGP ..........................................................119

UsingPGP.................................................120

Tocreateakeypair.....................................120

Encryptingemailsandfiles ..............................121

Decryptingemailsandfiles ..............................122

PGPdisk...................................................122

CreatinganewPGPdiskvolume ..........................123

Add/RemovePublicKeys ................................124

McAfeeShredder ...........................................125

Shreddingselectedfiles .................................125

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Shreddingnon-filedata..................................127

McAfeeZipManager ........................................127

ZipFiles ..............................................128

UsingZipManWizard ...................................128

SelectingMcAfeeZipManagerproperties ..................129

Extracting,archiving,oraddingfiles.......................131

Buildingself-extractingarchives..........................131

SwitchingbetweentheWizardandMcAfeeZipManager ......131

UsingAdvancedMcAfeeZipManager......................131

McAfeeOilChange..........................................133

Chapter5. McAfeeFirewall...................................135

AboutMcAfeeFirewall ...........................................135

HowMcAfeeFirewallworks.......................................135

AboutWinsock2................................................136

ConfiguringMcAfeeFirewall ......................................136

Applications ...............................................137

Controlapplications ....................................137

Defaultsettingsforapplications ..........................137

Systems...................................................138

Control system .........................................138

DefaultsettingsforSystemactivity........................138

Password Protection ....................................139

InstructionsforAdministrators....................................139

ConfiguringNetwork,DisplayandLoggingControls..............139

NetworkControl........................................139

DisplayControl ........................................140

LoggingControl........................................140

ConfiguringApplications ....................................140

ConfiguringSystemSettings .................................141

ConfigurationafterAdding/RemovingNetworkDevices ...........142

Using Password Protection ...................................142

Chapter6. McAfeeUnInstaller ................................145

UsingMcAfeeUnInstaller.........................................145

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CreatingtheSmartLinksdatabase .............................145

CustomizationInterview .....................................146

UnInstallerwizards..........................................146

AboutPowerClean ..........................................148

AboutMcAfeeGuardian .....................................148

UsingQuickClean ...............................................150

HowdoIsetupQuickCleantorunautomatically?................150

HowdoIscheduleQuickCleantorunataspecifictime? ..........151

Using SpaceMaker ..............................................151

UsingRemove..................................................152

UsingTransport ................................................153

How do I rebuild a transported application on another computer? . .153

UsingArchive ..................................................154

UsingMove ....................................................155

UsingBackTrack................................................156

How do I set BackTrack Monitor to run in the background? ........156

HowdoImonitorinstallationofasingleapplication?.............157

HowdoIundoanapplicationinstallationthatImonitored?........157

UsingRestore ..................................................158

HowdoIrestoredeletedfiles?................................159

UsingPowerClean ..............................................160

WhydoesthePowerCleanfeatureopeninread-onlymode? .......161

PowerCleanmenus .........................................165

Usingthetabpanes?........................................166

Whatdothecolorcodesmean? ..........................166

ChangingthedefaultsforthePowerCleanfeature................167

ViewingchangesdoneusingthePowerCleanfeature ........168

AboutReportsdialogbox ........................................168

Chapter7. McAfeeInternetGuardDog .........................171

HowInternetGuardDogworks ....................................171

UserSetup ................................................171

VirusScan .................................................171

ActivityLogs ..............................................172

SecurityCheck .............................................172

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InternetGuardDogandyouronlineconnection ......................172

InternetGuardDogfeatures ......................................172

Protection from privacy threats . . .............................173

Protection from security threats . .............................173

Protectionfromvirusthreats .................................174

UsingtheInternetGuardDogInterview .............................174

HowInternetGuardDogAdministratorworks........................175

Self-Administrator ..........................................176

How password protection works in Guard Dog ......................176

UsingtheInternetGuardDogHomescreen .........................176

HowUserSetupworks ......................................177

UserProfile............................................178

HowInternetFilteringworks .................................178

Internetfiltering ........................................178

ViewingActivityLogs .......................................179

PerformingaSecurityCheck .................................180

Responding to Product Name alert messages . . .................180

Using Browser Buddy to retrieve or store your Web site passwords 181

Privacy features ................................................183

What Cookie Blocker does ...................................183

WhatIdentityProtectordoes .................................184

WhatWebTrailCleanerdoes .................................185

WhatSearchFilterdoes .....................................185

Securityfeatures................................................185

What Gatekeeper does . . ....................................185

WhatFileGuardiandoes .....................................186

WhatPasswordManagerdoes ...............................187

Chapter 8. PGP Personal Privacy . . . ...........................189

Using PGP Personal Privacy . . ....................................189

BasicstepsforusingPGPPersonalPrivacy ....................190

Running PGP Personal Privacy ....................................191

FromtheSystemtray........................................192

PerformingPGPfunctionsfromtheclipboard ...............192

OpeningthePGPkeyswindow............................192

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SettingPGPPreferences ................................192

GettingHelp ...........................................193

QuittingPGP ..........................................193

Fromsupportedemailapplications ............................193

UsingPGP/MIME .......................................194

FromtheWindowsExplorer ..................................194

Selectingrecipients.....................................194

Takingshortcuts .......................................195

FromthePGPtoolsapplication................................195

PGPdisk .......................................................195

CreatinganewPGPdiskvolume ..............................196

Changing a passphrase . . ....................................197

Add/RemovePublicKeys ....................................198

AppendixA. ProductSupport.................................199

Customerservice ...........................................199

Technicalsupport ..........................................200

Supportviatheweb.....................................200

Telephonesupportnumbers .............................200

Index......................................................201

User’s Guide 15

1Welcome to McAfee Office

Thankyou fo r purchasi ngM cAfee O ffice—a suite o f pow erful and easy-t o-use

W indow s software utilities that he lps keep your PC working at optimu m

efficien cy and speed, as well as diagnosing, repairing, and protecting your PC

and its valuable data.

McAfe e Office contains a suite o f ut ility p ro grams that provid e yo u with

diagnostic, preventive, and security tools to help maintain your PC’s health

and well- b eing. Use McAfe e Office ut ilities together, or indiv idually, to

protect your PC from viru ses, ensure privacy of your PC’s data files, and

improve overall per formance of yo ur computer.

Programs and features

Central interface

Through a centr al interface, McAfe e Office improv s integration w ith the

individual components of the product suite. For example, instead of launching

a separate Mc Af e e Util ities m ain menu, a user can access all functio ns of

McAf ee Utilities directly from t he McAfee Off ice Central interface.

Figure 1-1. McAfee Office main window

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McAfee VirusScan

McAfee Vi rusScan provides complete desktop protection with an array of

scanning features that keep your system c lean, mean, and v irus-free. Using

onlythe latest t echnolog y,VirusScan detects 100% of viruses including floppy

disks, Internet downloads, email attachments, Intranets, shared files,

CD-ROM , and online services (even inside t he mos t popular c ompressed file

types).

• Hunter, VirusScan’s award-winning scann ing engine, includes

ground-breaking variant detection and heuristic technology that detects

even new unknow n ma cr o viruses before the y have a chance to infli ct

damage.

• SecureCast ensures that your virus signature files are always the latest.

New updates are pushed d irectly to your desktop the moment t hey are

released.

• AVERT (Anti-Virus Emergency Research T eam) staffs more than 85

experiencedv irusr esearchersaroundthew orld,providingc ustomerswith

unparalleled follow-the-sun support. AVERT even makes hourly beta

virus signat u re files available to all custom e rs 24 hours a day.

McAfee Utilities

McAfe e Util ities helps you keep your PC working at op timum effic ie ncy and

speed. Y ou can diagnose and r epair your s ystem and application software;

create a recovery di sk and image snapshots of critical sec tors of your h ard

drives; a void lost data during application crashes; create backup sets

automatically or interactively; back up to a protected volume file, which

makes your data recoverable when it otherwise would not be.

From t he moment you install M cAfe e Utilities, it begins protecting your PC.

First, by helping create a recovery disk that you can u se if problems arise.

Second , by activating Bomb Shelter, which immediately protects you against

losing unsavedinformation in the event that an application crashes. Next,y ou

can create a backup set of your v aluable data w ith Safe & Sound.

After repairing and protecting your system, you’re ready to u se other Mc Afee

Utilit ies to clean and optimize, prevent a nd protec t, a nd secure and ma nage

information.

McAfee U tilities c an diagnose, repair, and protect your system in the

followin g ways :

• D isc ove r shows a weal th of information about you r h ardware and

software.Italsoletsyourundiagnosticsandbenchmarktests.

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• Disk Minder safely, e asily, and quickly diagnoses and repairs existing or

potential disk problems.

• McAfee Image saves a copy of critical disk information in a file a nd

restores the image later if your disk is corrupted.

• Re gistry Wi zard allows you to e asily m aintain, troubleshoot, or repair the

Registry d atabase.

• Rescue Disk creates a custom rescue disk that you can use to boot up your

PC and begin recovery if you can’t start from the sy stem hard d rive.

•FirstAidquickly examines areas of you r computer for any problems that

can b e a utomatically fixed a t the click of a button.

• Safe & Sound l ets you create automatic or interactive backups of selected

drives, directories, files, or file types. You can b ack u p to a protected

volume file (a separate area on the drive).

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NOTE:A p rotected vol u me file conta ins inf or matio n about each file

in every sector to ensure that files can be recovered ev en if the har d

drive’s directories and data are severely damaged or lost. You can

also create mirror backups that instantly backup data asyousave it,

make backups after a time delay w hen the PC is id le, or create

manual backups.

• Trash Guard pr otects all the files you d elete, by send ing them to t he

Recycle Bin.

• Undelete lets you recover files that you have d el eted.

McAfee UnInstaller

If yo u think y ou’re run ning out of roo m on yo ur PC and need t o buy a new

hard dr ive—think again! Did you kno w every time you v isit a w ebsite, useless

files a re left on your computer? R emnants of old files are sca tte red all over

your PC. It’s crammed with bits and pieces of old software and junk files that

can slow it down and cause problems—and that’s exactly the debris that

McAfee UnInst aller gets rid of.

• Safe: UnInstaller safely d eletes Windows applications but never removes

critical system files, so you can clear you r PC with c omplete peace of mind.

• Fast scanning speed: Scans your PC fo r u nwanted file s with thorough link

determina tio n cap ability.

• One-click QuickClean: When time is of the ess ence, t his feature opens up

disk space immediately.

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• Scheduled cleaning : S chedule UnInstaller t o automatica lly delete useless

filesatanytime,dayornight.

• BackTrack: Restores and reconstructs your original setup after poor

program installations.

• Customization interview: Notify U nInstaller what files are most

important to you, and it w ill never to uch them.

• M ove s and archive s programs: Moves and archives applications to

anothe r fo lde r, drive, or co mputer—with all links intact.

• Full anti-virus and p rivacy protection: Now UnInstaller includes

anti-virus software that can even eradicate hostile cookies, A ctiveX

contro ls, and Java applets.

McAfee Internet Guard Dog

McAfee Internet Guard Dog is d esigned to ensure that you can use a ll aspects

of the Internet without worr ying that your priv acy and computer secu rity w ill

be compromised.

Internet Guard D og provides security by:

• Ch e cking yo u r comp u ter for p otential sec urit y risk and pr ivacy issues

allowing you t o fix these problems before data is d amaged or your pr ivacy

compromised. It checks:

• ProgramsthathaveaccessedtotheInternet.

• Sensitive data such as financial files and the programs that access

these files.

• V iruses that can d amage th e data on your computer or even go so

farastoreformatyourharddisk.

• A ctiveX control an d Jav a applets that may or may not perform

da nge rous a ctions on your computer.

• Alerting you of potential harmful events that will threaten your privacy

andsecurity.SomeoftheeventsthattriggersGuardDogtoalertyou

include :

• U nwarranted intrusion from other so urces on the Internet.

• Programs on y our computer th at p ass sensitive data to other sites.

• W eb sites that send cookies t o your computer as you use the

Internet.

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McAfee Firewall

McAfee F irewall is a personal firewall that lets you monitor, control and log

your PC 's netw ork activity. It protects you from Inter net hackers and keeps

your PC private.

McAfeeFirewallfilterstrafficatthedevicesthatyoursystemuses-network

cards and mode ms. T his means that it can reject inbound traffic before that

traffic can reach vital fun ctions in your PC and before it c an w aste valuable

system resources.

It monitor s applications that ar e either trusted or not truste d. Whe n truste d

applications need to access a netw ork, it m anages everything in the c omputer

to allow that app lica tio n's t ra ffic. When it detects non-tr usted applications

trying to access a network, it blocks all traffic to and from that application.

McAfee PGP Personal Privacy

McAf e e PGP Perso nal Privacy protects the privacy of your email messages

and files via encryption so that only the intended recipients can read them.

You can also digitally signed messages an d files ensuring its authen ticity and

verifying that information has not been tampered in any way.

Features of the McAfee PGP Personal Privacy include:

• P hotographic User ID. You can add yourphotographto your public k ey.

When you r Photo ID is signed, it provides additional information when

verifying your key.

• PGPdisk Functionality. This encrypti on application enables you to set

as ide an area of disk space for s toring your sensitive or p e rsonal data.

• S ignature Verification. When signat u res colle cte d on keys are

automatically verified when added to y our ring, this feature allows you

to reverify signatures for added security.

• U nknown Recipient or Signer Server Lookup. When decrypting o r

verify ing a message, you can automatically perform a server lookup via

this feature. PGP sc ans all the k eys which the m essage is encrypted to or

sign ed by to determine the identity of the reci pient or signer.

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Other features

McAfee Virtual Office

McAfe e o f f e rs full featur e d web sites with unequale d ease of use. N o HTML

or design experien ce is required to create your multi-page site. Select the

McAfee Ultra W eb Site, which has both business and personal templates, as

wellasreal-timecommunication features suchaschatandfil eexchange, or the

free McAfee B asic Web Site.

Your fr ee McAfee Basic Web Site includes five pages—Home, Con tact In fo,

Pictur e s, Links and My Stu ff—to p ro vide information to your friends,

colleagues,family.And yo ur site co mes with web-based em ailso you can keep

in touch from anywhere on the web.

McAfee on the Web

McAfee.com unveiled a new web site with a host of new services and online

app lications de dicated to up da ting, upgrading, and managing P Cs ov e r the

web. McAfee.com provides personalized PC management.

The site delivers Internet-based software services for both the novice and

expert us er - to defend, diagnose, and repair their PCs.

McAfee.com provides e-software to seamlessly blend the power of the onli ne

computer, the u biquity of the Internet, and the rich ness of the Web to furn ish

visually appealing, b rowser-based, versionless software applications that can

be accessed at anytime from anywhere via the In ternet. This new w ave of

Internet tech nology is focused on targeted, personalized customer services.

By design, McAfee.com protects the security and respects the privacy of its

online community. Users are assured that McAfee.com records their

reg istration information only. As a subsidiary of N etwork Associates, the

world leader in network security, McAfee.com understands its customers'

pri vacy concerns and has taken extreme precauti ons to ensure the integrity of

the services provided.

McAfee Web View

This brow ser, powered by Neoplanet, enables yo u to control how you

experience t he Web, makin g navigation faster and more intuitive. With

McAfee W eb View: you can create your o wn visual and a udio backgroun ds;

accesssiteswithouttypingentire U RLaddress; anddownloadfaster,graphics

and files using the Modem Speed B ooster. You can also sign up t o get FRE E

email.

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