McAfee MFN10EMB3RAA - Family Protection - PC User Manual
McAfee MFN10EMB3RAA - Family Protection - PC User Manual

McAfee MFN10EMB3RAA - Family Protection - PC User Manual

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McAfee Family Protection
The Easiest, Most Complete Way to Keep Your Children Safe Online

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  • Page 1 User Guide McAfee Family Protection The Easiest, Most Complete Way to Keep Your Children Safe Online...
  • Page 2: Support Information

    An existing internet connection and online registration is required. STEP 2: Next, you’ll need to insert the McAfee Family Protection CD into your CD-ROM drive. On most systems, the installer will run automatically; if it does not, access your CD-ROM drive and double-click the “Install Family Protection”...
  • Page 3: Forgotten Passwords

    User Guide McAfee Family Protection McAfee Family Protection | User Management Account Summary Adding A New User Family Protection allows you to create multiple users and apply di erent settings to each user. To prevent tampering, all Family Protection settings are stored on our secure servers. To add a user, click the “Add a New User” button on the rst page of the Account Summary section.
  • Page 4 User Guide McAfee Family Protection McAfee Family Protection | Web Blocking Category Based This feature allows you to block up to 35 categories. By clicking on the category names you will see a description of the kind of content that will be blocked. Simply identify the category you wish to ban, click the “banned” column next to it and a check mark will appear indicating a blocked category.
  • Page 5 McAfee Family Protection McAfee Family Protection | Instant Messaging Blocking IM: Simply check which messenger box you wish to block. Family Protection can log and block conversations that use AOL, ICQ, MSN or Yahoo instant messenger. The administrator can choose to block individual users without blocking the entire family by using the user pull down menu located at the top of the page and highlighting the user’s name and customizing the screen.
  • Page 6: Email Blocking

    User Guide McAfee Family Protection McAfee Family Protection | Time Limits Limit Time Spent Online This section of Time Limits allows you to manage the amount of time that a Family Protection user may spend online per day. For example, when 14 year-old Kristin is allowed one hour of online time a day but is only allowed to get online from the time she gets o the school bus until dinnertime, mom or dad can call out that window of time with this function.
  • Page 7: Social Networking

    User Guide McAfee Family Protection McAfee Family Protection | Social Networking Social Networking Social networks such as MySpace, Facebook and Xanga provide a virtual community for people interested in common subjects to connect or just to “hang out” together. The network grows as members contact friends of other members.
  • Page 8: Program Blocking

    User Guide McAfee Family Protection McAfee Family Protection | Program Blocking Program Blocking Program Blocking allows you to select types of programs you want to block from communicating from your computer to the Internet. Programs such as instant messengers, certain computer games, media players, newsgroups, email, FTP, although widely used, can be potential vehicles for receiving inappropriate, illegal or even dangerous content over the Internet.
  • Page 9: Alert Sensitivity

    User Guide McAfee Family Protection McAfee Family Protection | Instant Alerts Instant Alerts Perhaps the only thing better than deciding to purchase a ltering software program is the rst time that program actually communicates to you personally when a user attempts to access any inappropriate content.
  • Page 10 McAfee and/or other noted McAfee related products contained herein are registered trademarks or trademarks of McAfee, Inc., and/or 3965 Freedom Circle its af liates in the U.S. and/or other countries. McAfee Red in connection with security is distinctive of McAfee brand products. Any other Santa Clara, CA 95054...

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