McAfee MIS80E001RAI - Internet Security Suite 2006 User Manual page 68

McAfee Personal Firewall Plus
Reporting an event
To report an event that you think was an attack on your computer:
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Personal Firewall reports the event to the HackerWatch.org using your unique ID.
Signing up for HackerWatch.org
When you first open the Summary page, Personal Firewall contacts
HackerWatch.org to generate your unique user ID. If you are an existing user, your
sign-up is automatically validated. If you are a new user, you must enter a
nickname and email address, then click the validation link in the confirmation
email from HackerWatch.org to be able to use the event filtering/e-mailing
features at its web site.
You can report events to HackerWatch.org without validating your user ID.
However, to filter events and email events to a friend, you must sign up for the
service.
Signing up for the service allows your submissions to be tracked and lets us notify
you if HackerWatch.org needs more information or further action from you. We
also require you to sign up because we must confirm any information we receive
for that information to be useful.
All email addresses provided to HackerWatch.org are kept confidential. If a
request for additional information is made by an ISP, that request is routed
through HackerWatch.org; your email address is never exposed.
Trusting an address
You can use the Inbound Events page to add an IP address to the Trusted IP
Addresses list to allow a permanent connection.
If you see an event in the Inbound Events page that contains an IP address that you
need to allow, you can have Personal Firewall allow connections from it at all
times.
To add an IP address to the Trusted IP Addresses list:
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Right-click the McAfee icon in the Windows system tray, point to
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Firewall Inbound Events
Click the event you want to report, then click
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Right-click the McAfee icon in the Windows system tray, point to
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Firewall Inbound Events
Right-click the event whose IP address you want trusted, and click
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