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Total Protection Quick-Start Guide
Peace of Mind for Your Entire Family
McAfee Total Protection is the most comprehensive protection available offering 10-in-1
protection from PC and online threats. It also includes PC and network tools, plus McAfee
SiteAdvisor™ for safe surfing.
Total Protection can be configured and managed using McAfee
more about how to use Total Protection, please refer to:
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Getting Started
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How to Access Your Product
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What's New and How to Use
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Making Sure You're Secure
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- Page 1 Total Protection Quick-Start Guide Peace of Mind for Your Entire Family McAfee Total Protection is the most comprehensive protection available offering 10-in-1 protection from PC and online threats. It also includes PC and network tools, plus McAfee ® SiteAdvisor™ for safe surfing.
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Page 2: Getting Started
McAfee ® Total Protection Quick-Start Guide Getting Started Your McAfee product and SecurityCenter make protecting your computer simple. Here is more information about how to install: Installing Your Product from a CD Installing Your Product from Our Web Site Go to the McAfee web site, and click My Insert your product CD into your CD- ROM drive. - Page 3 3. Double-click the M icon in the system tray, near the time display. Once you have opened SecurityCenter, you can view your installed McAfee products by clicking the View Details link in the lower right corner of the console. Your McAfee products can be managed directly within SecurityCenter.
- Page 4 User Guide | Consumer Security Solutions McAfee ® Total Protection Quick-Start Guide What’s New and How to Use Learn the best way to take advantage of McAfee’s “load and go” settings by reading more about the features below. McAfee SecurityCenter ®...
- Page 5 If your protection status changes throughout the course of your subscription, you will be prompted by McAfee with the recommended security actions to get your status back to green. The three different levels of security status are provided below.
- Page 6 Update button. Be sure that you are connected to the Internet before checking for updates. What’s New: Improved Firewall Protection Your McAfee product gives you complete inbound and outbound security that automatically trusts known good programs and helps block known spyware, Trojans, and key loggers.
- Page 7 User Guide | Consumer Security Solutions McAfee ® Total Protection Quick-Start Guide How to Use Firewall Protection The firewall protection is pre-configured and requires no action by you. If you are a technically savvy user and want to re-configure firewall, please refer to the Advanced Menu within SecurityCenter.
- Page 8 Total Protection Quick-Start Guide How to Use: PC Health and Performance Tools Access these features from the Common Tasks > Maintain Computer section. Click Maintain Computer. You can remove accumulated junk from your computer by simply clicking Start under the McAfee QuickClean section.
- Page 9 User Guide | Consumer Security Solutions McAfee ® Total Protection Quick-Start Guide You can start the defrag process on your hard drive by clicking the Analyze button. While performing a disk defrag, you will see this screenshot. After the analysis is complete, click Defragment to defrag your hard drive.
- Page 10 CD/DVD, or USB, external, or network drive. How to Use: Back Up & Restore Select the Backup & Restore option under Common Tasks. Create your McAfee Backup account, by clicking Create a McAfee Data Backup Account.
- Page 11 ® Total Protection Quick-Start Guide What’s New: Improved Email, IM and Spam Protection Your McAfee product also offers the following new and improved features: • Email and IM Virus Protection scans inbound and outbound emails and IM including attachments and zip files using a “deep” scan rather than a standard scan. With enhanced worm protection preventing unknown email applications from sending an email without your knowledge.
- Page 12 User Guide | Consumer Security Solutions McAfee ® Total Protection Quick-Start Guide How To Use: Email, IM and Spam Protection From the main SecurityCenter console click Email & IM and then click on Configure in the lower right hand section.
- Page 13 From this example for Spam Protection you can select the filtering options best suited for your needs and then click OK. What’s New: Parental Controls Your product includes Parental Controls enhanced content protection which now also protects your family from offensive content and photos with McAfee Image Analysis. ® How to Use: Parental Controls You can access Image Analysis or any of the Parental Control features - click the Parental Controls section on the main SecurityCenter page and select the Configure option.
- Page 14 What’s New: Identity Protection Identity Protection secures your identity while online or connected to the Internet. This includes McAfee ® Password Vault and McAfee SiteAdvisor. McAfee Password Vault allows you to securely store confidential passwords on your PC, preventing others from viewing them.
- Page 15 SiteAdvisor adds safety ratings to sites and search engine results based on comprehensive spam, adware, and online scam safety tests. How to Use: McAfee SiteAdvisor Once downloaded and installed SiteAdvisor does all the work for you. When searching with Google, Yahoo!, MSN, or others, SiteAdvisor’s safety ratings appear next to search results and a...
- Page 16 You can access Wireless Network Protection from a few locations. The wireless icon in your system tray, the Wireless Home Network desktop icon, from your programs menu or via McAfee SecurityCenter. Once you access Wireless Network, you can simply allow your friends and family to connect to your secure wireless network.
- Page 17 To configure Network Manager – please refer to the Advanced Menu within SecurityCenter. What’s New: McAfee EasyNetwork McAfee EasyNetwork allows you to share files and printers among the computers in your home network. How to Use: McAfee EasyNetwork Double-click the McAfee EasyNetwork desktop icon to start EasyNetwork.
- Page 18 This new feature enhances your privacy by helping to eradicate the digital footprints left behind by erased files that hackers or other unauthorized users can access. How To Use: McAfee Shredder Select Shredder under “Tools”, you can easily erase files, folders or even an entire disk.
- Page 19 McAfee and/or additional marks herein are registered trademarks or trademarks of McAfee, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the US and/or other countries. McAfee Red in connection with security is distinctive of McAfee brand products. All other registered and unregistered trademarks herein are the sole property of their respective owners. © 2006 McAfee, Inc.