McAfee ANTI-THEFT FILE PROTECTION User manual

Anti-Theft File Protection

User Guide

Contents

McAfee Anti-Theft 3

Anti-Theft features..............................................................................................................4

Getting started.....................................................................................................................5

Using McAfee Anti-Theft ..........................................................................................5

The First-Use wizard: Step 1.....................................................................................6

The First-Use wizard: Step 2.....................................................................................6

The First-Use wizard: Step 3.....................................................................................6

The First-Use wizard: Complete .............................................................................. 7

Windows user accounts and McAfee Anti-Theft..................................................... 7

Working with vaults ............................................................................................................8

Create a vault.............................................................................................................8

Lock a vault................................................................................................................9

Unlock a vault.......................................................................................................... 10

Rename a vault ........................................................................................................ 10

Change a vault's password ..................................................................................... 11

Delete a vault ........................................................................................................... 12

Import a vault .......................................................................................................... 13

Set the Anti-Theft File options ...............................................................................13

Delete a file from a vault ......................................................................................... 14

Using other programs with Anti-Theft............................................................................ 15

Save a file directly into a vault ................................................................................ 15

Retrieve a file from a vault ...................................................................................... 16

Security software ..................................................................................................... 16

Backing up your vaults ..................................................................................................... 17

Troubleshooting ...............................................................................................................19

I forgot my password...............................................................................................19

I cannot find my vault............................................................................................. 20

My vault is read-only............................................................................................... 20

Uninstalling Anti-Theft........................................................................................... 20

Index 21

Every day, computers are lost, stolen, or used by others. When

this occurs, personal or confidential information can be accessed

by thieves, hackers, or anyone else who uses the computer. This

can lead to financial loss, identity theft, and privacy invasion.

McAfee Anti-Theft safeguards files containing financial

documents, consumer data, and any important information from

thieves, hackers, and others.

In this chapter

Anti-Theft features ......................................................4

Getting started.............................................................5

Working with vaults ....................................................8

Using other programs with Anti-Theft ......................15

Backing up your vaults................................................17

Troubleshooting..........................................................19

CHAPTER 1

McAfee Anti-Theft

4McAfee Anti-Theft

Anti-Theft features

Password

protection

Prevent someone from accessing your files in

case your computer is lost or stolen.

Lock and hide

files

Lock and hide your private files from others who

use your computer.

Password reset If you forget your password you can easily reset

it from your computer.

Multiple users Each user on your computer can create their

own vaults.

Getting started

This section will take you through the initial setup of McAfee

Anti-Theft. The First-Use wizard starts as soon as you install the

product, and lets you create your first vault. Following that, you

can begin securing your important files.

In this chapter

Using McAfee Anti-Theft ............................................5

The First-Use wizard: Step 1.......................................6

The First-Use wizard: Step 2.......................................6

The First-Use wizard: Step 3.......................................6

The First-Use wizard: Complete ................................7

Windows user accounts and McAfee Anti-Theft.......7

Using McAfee Anti-Theft

McAfee Anti-Theft allows you to store a file within

password-protected folders. These folders are known as vaults

and they prevent hackers and other users from getting access to

the files stored inside them. A vault behaves just like a Windows

folder; for example, you can double-click a vault to open it and

right-click it to view its various menu options. However, unlike a

regular folder the vault is password-protected.

Note: Each vault also becomes a virtual drive and is automatically

designated the first free letter from the end of the alphabet (for

example, Z:\). If your computer already has a Z:\ drive it will

choose the next free letter (for example, Y:\). If your computer

has a Z:\ and a Y:\ drive, Anti-Theft will work its way through the

alphabet until it finds a free letter. You can access these drives by

double-clicking the McAfee Anti-Theft icon on your desktop or by

right-clicking the McAfee Anti-Theft icon in the notification area,

to the far right of your taskbar.

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The First-Use wizard: Step 1

The First-Use wizard appears when you start to create your first

vault. The First-Use wizard is a set of screens that allow you to

build your Anti-Theft system and create your first vault. It is at

this stage that you specify the security questions and answers

that will provide access to all your vaults if you forget a password;

for example, "In which city did you meet your spouse/significant

other?" or "What was the name of your childhood pet?". There are

several questions, but you need to select only three.

Select a question from the Question 1 list, and enter an answer

in the Answer 1 box. Do the same for Question 2 and Question

3, making sure you select different questions with the relevant

answers entered in the respective answer boxes. Your answers to

the security questions are not case-sensitive.

Note: The First-Use wizard appears for every Windows user on

your computer when they run McAfee Anti-Theft for the first

time.

The First-Use wizard: Step 2

Click Next to move to the next screen. Here you can specify the

name of your first vault, the vault size, and the password.

Enter the name of vault in the Name box.

Move the slider to specify the size of the vault. This is the vault

capacity, the amount of megabytes or gigabytes you think are

necessary to hold your files. Once you create the vault you will

not be able to adjust the size.

Enter a password for the vault in the Password box. The

Password Strength indicator denotes how strong your

password is, that is, if it contains just alphabetic characters

then it may be considered weak, and if it contains alphabetic

and numeric characters then it will be considered strong.

Re-enter the password in the Confirm Password box, and then

click Next.

The First-Use wizard: Step 3

Do the following:

To... Do this...

Start working with your new

vault

Click Yes, I want to unlock it (Vault

Name) and then click Finish.

Leave the vault locked for

the time being

Click No, I want to leave it locked,

and then click Finish.

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Recommendations

To ensure your vault contains the only copy of a file, follow these

standard Windows procedures:

To move a file into your vault, hold down the SHIFT key and

use your mouse to drag the file into your vault.

After saving a file using a program's Save As feature, delete

the file from its original location. Remember that if you use

Save As to save the file with a different name, the original file

remains in its original location.

To permanently erase deleted files, use a file shredding

program, such as McAfee Shredder.

The First-Use wizard: Complete

The newly created vault appears as an icon in the Windows

Explorer main window. It also appears as a folder in the left hand

pane under \My Documents\McAfee Vaults. You can use it just

like any other folder in Windows Explorer, the difference being, a

password must be entered to retrieve the contents.

Windows user accounts and McAfee Anti-Theft

If more than one person uses your computer, we recommend

that you create unique Windows user accounts for each one to

minimize the risk of a user accidentally deleting a vault.

With McAfee Anti-Theft, any vaults you create are associated with

your Windows user account. This means that users who access

your computer using your Windows user account can see and

delete your vaults, but cannot access the files inside locked

vaults.

We also recommend that you back up your vaults. For more

information, see Backing up your vaults (page 17).

To learn how to create new Windows users, see the Windows

Help.

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Working with vaults

Vaults are secured folders that prevent hackers and other users

from getting access to the files stored inside them. A vault

behaves just like a Windows folder; for example, you can

double-click a vault to open it and right-click it to view its various

menu options. However, unlike a regular folder the vault is

password-protected.

Use this section to find out how to work with vaults.

Create a vault

The Create option allows you to create a new vault. You can

create many vaults depending on your requirements. All new

vaults are locked by default.

1 Open McAfee Anti-Theft by double-clicking the McAfee

Anti-Theft icon on your desktop.

2 In the top toolbar on the right pane, click Create to start the

Create New Vault wizard.

3 Enter the name of vault in the Name box.

4 Move the slider to specify the size of the vault.

5 Enter a password for the vault in the Password box.

6 Re-enter the password in the Confirm Password box, and

then click Next.

7 To start working with the vault, click Yes, I want to unlock it

(vault name). To leave the vault locked for the time being,

click No, I want to leave it locked.

Note: The Password Strength indicator denotes how strong

your password is; that is, if it contains just alphabetic characters

then it may be considered weak, and if it contains alphabetic and

numeric characters then it will be considered strong.

Vault specifics

Vaults have a minimum size of 50 megabytes and you can

increase the vault size to up to 4 gigabytes. To create a vault larger

than 4 gigabytes, see Creating a vault larger than 4 gigabytes

(page 9).

With McAfee Anti-Theft, any vaults you create are associated with

your Windows user account. For more information, see Windows

User Accounts and McAfee Anti-Theft (page 7).

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