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McAfee Help McAfee AntiVirus Plus McAfee Internet Security McAfee Total Protection McAfee Home Page Home Page features Using the Home Page Getting started with the Home Page Understanding your protection status Understanding the protection drawers Understanding your protection features Install a protection feature Using the Navigation Center Open the Navigation Center Managing your subscription Review your subscription Activate your product Verify your subscription Renew your subscription Frequently Asked Questions Staying protected with automatic updates Check for updates Choose your update options Turn off automatic updates Fixing protection problems Fix a protection problem Working with alerts Understanding the alert types Showing or hiding informational alerts Show or hide informational alerts Setting alert options Hide the McAfee splash screen at startup Viewing your security history View a security event View a security report McAfee Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware features Working with alerts Using scans Run a quick scan Run a full scan Run a custom scan Run a manual scan Scanning your PC View scan progress View scan results Working with scan results Managing detected items Delete infected items Review potentially unwanted programs Complete a scan View scan details Managing quarantined and trusted items View quarantined and trusted items Delete quarantined items Remove items from the trusted list Restore quarantined items Send quarantined items to McAfee Setting real-time scanning options Buffer overflow protection Set real-time scanning options Turn off real-time scanning Turn on real-time scanning Use Access Protection Setting custom scan options Set custom scan options Setting a scan schedule Schedule automatic scans Turn off scheduled scanning Turn on scheduled scanning Learning about Internet security Launch the Virus Information Library Launch the Virus Map McAfee Personal Firewall Personal Firewall features Starting Firewall Turn firewall protection off Turn firewall protection on Working with alerts Setting up Firewall protection Restore Firewall settings Managing Firewall security levels Personal Firewall security levels Set your security level Setting up Smart Advice for alerts Smart Advice settings Set Smart Advice to decide automatically Set Smart Advice to ask me to decide Turn off Smart Advice Customizing Firewall security Protect your PC during startup Change settings for ping requests Change settings for UDP tracking Set up Attack Detection Change settings for Protection Alerts Locking and restoring Firewall Set the security level for Firewall to Lockdown Unlock Firewall Managing programs and their permissions Program settings Allow full access for a program Allow outgoing access for a program Block access for a program Remove a program's permissions Managing PC connections PC connection management PC connections trust levels Add a PC connection Edit a PC connection Remove a PC connection About system services Setting up system service ports System services and ports Allow access to an existing system service port Block access to an existing system service port Set up a new system service port Remove a system service port Event Logging Change settings for event logging View events Viewing HackerWatch statistics View global security event statistics View global Internet port activity Monitoring Internet traffic Internet traffic monitoring tools About the Traffic Analysis graph Analyze incoming and outgoing traffic Monitor program bandwidth Monitor program activity Learning about Internet security Launch the HackerWatch tutorial McAfee Parental Controls Parental Controls features Setting up Parental Controls Set your administrator password Change your administrator password Protect your Windows users Remove a user's protection settings Assigning an age group Assigning a user to an age group Assign a user to an age group Allow a content category Block a content category Allow only Kid Safe websites Using safe searching Understanding safe searching Turn on safe searching Allowing and blocking websites Allow a website Block a website Remove a filtered website Limiting time spent on the web Create a web browsing schedule McAfee Anti-Spam Anti-Spam features How Anti-Spam works Setting up spam protection Setting options for filtering Change the filtering level Define how to handle spam Add, edit, or remove filters for character sets Mark a message manually Using custom filters Add, edit or remove custom filters Specify custom filtering rules Filtering webmail accounts Add a webmail account to the webmail filtering rules Specify webmail filtering rules Change an entry in the webmail filtering rules Stop filtering a webmail account Managing filtered email View, delete, or move filtered webmail View history and logs Send your filtered email to McAfee Managing your Friends List Add contacts from your address book Add a friend to your Friends List with the Anti-Spam toolbar Add a friend or domain to your Friends List manually Change an entry in your Friends List Remove a friend or domain from your Friends List Setting up phishing protection Manage your whitelist Turning off spam protection Turn off spam protection Remove the Anti-Spam toolbar McAfee My Home Network My Home Network features Network management terms Understanding My Home Network icons Working with alerts Setting up a home network File and printer sharing Working with the network map Access the network map Refresh the network map Hide offline PCs and devices in the network map View PC or device details Edit a PC name Rename a device or change its type Stop trusting the home network Managing your home network Trust a PC on the home network Accept a trust invitation Reject a trust invitation Remove trust Mark as intruder Unmark as intruder Remotely managing PCs and devices Set up automatic notifications Install McAfee protection on remote PCs Fixing security vulnerabilities Fix security vulnerabilities Fix an overcrowded network McAfee Tools Tools features QuickClean Shredder Cleaning your PC Set up QuickClean Set an automatic cleaning schedule Clean your PC Shredding files, folders, and disks Set up Shredder Shred files, folders, and disks Windows Defragmenter Run Windows Defragmenter Online Backup Release Notes