Mcafee Personal Firewall - McAfee VIRUSSCAN PLUS 2008 User Manual

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McAfee Personal Firewall

Personal Firewall offers advanced protection for your computer
and your personal data. Personal Firewall establishes a barrier
between your computer and the Internet, silently monitoring
Internet traffic for suspicious activities.
Note: SecurityCenter reports critical and non-critical protection
problems as soon as it detects them. If you need help diagnosing
your protection problems, you can run McAfee Virtual
Technician.
In this chapter
Personal Firewall features ..........................................62
Starting Firewall ..........................................................65
Working with alerts .....................................................67
Managing informational alerts...................................69
Configuring Firewall protection.................................71
Managing programs and permissions .......................83
Managing system services ..........................................91
Managing computer connections..............................97
Logging, monitoring, and analysis.............................105
Learning about Internet security ...............................115