Understanding Protection Status - McAfee INTERNET SECURITY SUITE 2008 User Manual

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Understanding protection status

Your computer's protection status is shown in the protection
status area on the SecurityCenter Home pane. It indicates
whether your computer is fully protected against the latest
security threats and can be influenced by things like external
security attacks, other security programs, and programs that
access the Internet.
Your computer's protection status can be red, yellow, or green.
Protection Status Description
Red Your computer is not protected. The protection
status area on the SecurityCenter Home pane is
red and states that you are not protected.
SecurityCenter reports at least one critical
security problem.
To achieve full protection, you must fix all
critical security problems in each protection
category (the problem category's status is set to
Action Required
about how to fix protection problems, see
protection problems
Yellow Your computer is partially protected. The
protection status area on the SecurityCenter
Home pane is yellow and states that you are not
protected. SecurityCenter reports at least one
non-critical security problem.
To achieve full protection, you must fix or ignore
the non-critical security problems associated
with each protection category. For information
about how to fix or ignore protection problems,
see
(page 17).
Green Your computer is fully protected. The protection
status area on the SecurityCenter Home pane is
green and states that you are protected.
SecurityCenter does not report any critical or
non-critical security problems.
Each protection category lists the services that
are protecting your computer.
, also in red). For information
(page 18).
Fixing or ignoring protection problems
Fixing