Working with alerts

Alerts appear on your screen to let you know when security events occur on your PC. An alert provides information about an event, as well as recommendations and options for resolving security problems.

You can also control which alerts appear (for example, you can hide informational alerts) and decide if the splash screen appears on startup. Since alerts are an important part of your protection, you cannot disable them. Security alerts are an imortant part of your protection; they provide immediate notification of critical and non-critical security events as soon as they occur on your PC. The security alerts types (red, yellow, and gray) indicate the severity of a security event by color. Review the security alert descriptions to understand the kinds of security events that are associated with each of the alerts. To learn more about informational alerts, read Showing or hiding informational alerts.

Alert type	Descripton
Red	A red alert is a critical notification that requires you to respond and resolve the issue. Some red alerts correspond to the "at risk" protection status on the Home Page . After you fix the problem, the protection status returns to "secure." For example, if your real-time scanning is turned off, the protection status turns to "at risk." After you turn real-time scanning on, the protection status is "secure."
Yellow	A yellow alert is a notification of an event that might affect your protection status. You could receive a yellow alert when McAfee detects an infected file on your PC.
Gray	A gray alert, also known as an informational alert, is a non-critical notification to convey information regarding security related events. You might receive a gray alert when McAfee cleans an infected file on your PC. Gray alerts usually close automatically after a few seconds.

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