Applications; Control Applications; Default Settings For Applications - McAfee OFFICE 3.1 User Manual

Applications

Control applications

McAfee Firewall monitors network traffic to see which applications are
communicating. Depending on your settings, it will allow or block an
application's attempt to communicate.
To control which applications may communicate, click the Settings menu item
and choose Applications.
If you choose to "Trust all applications" (putting a check mark in the box), then
applications will be added to the "Trusted" list automatically and will be
allowed to communicate.
If you do not choose to "Trust all applications", as shown in the figure above,
then the first time you run an application and it tries to communicate, you will
be prompted and asked if you want that application to communicate. You are
only prompted once. Known applications are either allowed or blocked,
depending on which list they have been put in.

Default settings for applications

When installed, the default setting is to prompt the user before allowing an
application to communicate. The first time you run an application that uses the
network, you will be prompted.
If you choose "Yes", the application will be allowed to communicate normally,
as it would without McAfee Firewall running.
If you choose "No", the application will be blocked and will probably report an
error message, such as "Network is unavailable".
If you allow an application the first time you are prompted, you may change
this and block it at any time: just select the Settings/Applications menu item.
There, you can move applications into either the "Trusted" list or the "Blocked"
list.
When you exit McAfee Firewall, your settings are saved and will be the same
the next time it is run.
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