What Guard Dog Does While Your Pc Is Running; Using The Guard Dog Shortcut Menu; User's Guide - McAfee GUARD DOG 2 User Manual

• Save the Log as a text file.
• Clear the entries in the Log.

What Guard Dog does while your PC is running

While you use your PC, Guard Dog is on the lookout for potential privacy,
security, and virus problems and takes action when it finds a problem. (Guard
Dog uses the information stored in Protection Settings to determine what to
monitor and how to react.) You can tell when Guard Dog is working because
its icon appears in the Windows taskbar as shown in Figure 3-4.
Right-click to display the
Guard Dog shortcut menu
 NOTE: If you see a Guard Dog alert message, see

Using the Guard Dog shortcut menu

Even when you aren't running the main Guard Dog program, you still have
quick access to several features using the shortcut menu. Right-click the Guard
Dog icon on the Windows taskbar to display this menu. From the shortcut
menu you can:
• Start the Guard Dog main program.
• Display Browser Buddy, which lets you retrieve your Internet passwords
and displays statistics on how many cookies have been allowed or blocked,
and how often it has cleared search information.
• Display Protection Settings, which lets you change how Guard Dog is set
up.
• Display Windows help for Guard Dog.
• Encrypt and decrypt files that are protected by File Guardian.
• Close the part of Guard Dog that monitors your PC while Windows runs.
 NOTE: For step-by-step directions on working with the Log, see
Guard Dog Help.
Figure 3-4. The Guard Dog icon in the taskbar.
Dog alert messages"later in this chapter.
Quick Tour of Guard Dog
"Responding to Guard

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