McAfee MTP08EMB3RUA - Total Protection

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McAfee®Total Protection Quick-Start Guide

Peace of Mind for Your Entire Family

McAfee Total Protection is the most comprehensive protection available offering 10-in-1

protection from PC and online threats. It also includes PC and network tools, plus McAfee®

SiteAdvisor™ for safe surﬁng.

Total Protection can be conﬁgured and managed using McAfee®SecurityCenter™. To learn

more about how to use Total Protection, please refer to:

Getting Started

How to Access Your Product

What’s New and How to Use

Making Sure You’re Secure

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McAfee®Total Protection Quick-Start Guide

Getting Started

Your McAfee product and SecurityCenter make protecting your computer simple. Here is

more information about how to install:

Installing Your Product from a CD

Insert your product CD into your CD-

ROM drive.

The McAfee installation screen should

appear automatically. If it does not, click

Start on your Windows desktop, then

click Run. In the Run dialog box, type

D:\SETUP.EXE (where D is the letter of

your CD-ROM drive). Click OK.

Installing Your Product from Our Web Site

Go to the McAfee web site, and click My

Account.

If prompted, enter your McAfee email

address and password, and then click

Locate your product in the list, and click

the Download Icon.

Review and accept the EULA.

Click Download to download Download

Manager.

Follow the prompts to run Download

Manager.

> Insert your product CD

into your CD-ROM drive.

> Open Windows Explorer:

Click Start on your Win-

dows desktop, and click

Search.

> Locate the Manuals fold-

er, and double-click the

User Guide .PDF you want

to open.

For More Information

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McAfee®Total Protection Quick-Start Guide

How to Access Your Product

After installation, McAfee programs start automatically and run in the background. To open

SecurityCenter, do any of the following:

1. Double-click the Desktop Icon.

2. Click Start, select All Programs (or Programs), select McAfee, then select McAfee

SecurityCenter.

3. Double-click the Micon in the system tray, near the time display.

Once you have opened SecurityCenter, you can view your installed McAfee products by

clicking the View Details link in the lower right corner of the console. Your McAfee products

can be managed directly within SecurityCenter.

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What’s New and How to Use

Learn the best way to take advantage of McAfee’s “load and go” settings by reading more about

the features below.

McAfee® SecurityCenter™

Virus, Spyware, and Other Automatic Protection

One-Click Scan and Update Feature

Firewall Protection

PC Health and Performance

Backup & Restore

Email, IM and Spam Protection

Parental Controls

Identity Protection

McAfee®SiteAdvisor™

Wireless Protection

Network Manager

EasyNetwork (3 User)

McAfee®Shredder

What’s New: McAfee SecurityCenter

Your product plugs into the re-designed McAfee SecurityCenter, so you now have one place to

view your computer’s protection status.

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McAfee®Total Protection Quick-Start Guide

How To Use SecurityCenter

Upon installation, SecurityCenter will display a fully protected security status with a green

checkmark. If your protection status changes throughout the course of your subscription, you

will be prompted by McAfee with the recommended security actions to get your status back to

green. The three different levels of security status are provided below.

What’s New: Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, and Other Protection

Your product offers the following new and improved features:

Improved scanning: faster anti-virus and anti-spyware scanning.

SystemGuards: monitors for activities that might indicate that a virus or spyware is

attempting to install on your PC.

McAfee®X-Ray for Windows: detects and removes rootkits, which are designed to

hide from Windows and make it easy for spyware to install on your PC without your

knowledge.

Buffer overﬂow protection: blocks buffer overﬂow attacks on your PC.

Script Scanner: blocks drive-by downloads and similar exploits from attacking your PC.

WormStopper: prevents unknown email applications from sending worms without

your knowledge.

How to Use: Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, and Other Protection

Your product is pre-conﬁgured to offer ideal security protection and requires no action to

work properly. If you are an advanced user and you want to re-conﬁgure your product, please

refer to the Advanced Menu.

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What’s New: One-Click Scan and One-Click Update

Your product automatically monitors your computer for viruses, spyware, and other threats.

By default, SecurityCenter also runs a scheduled scan once a week.

How to Use: One-Click Scan and One-Click Update

If you would like to run a manual scan, click the Scan button.

When you are connected to the Internet, SecurityCenter automatically checks for updates and

upgrades and installs them automatically. If you want to check for updates manually, click the

Update button. Be sure that you are connected to the Internet before checking for updates.

What’s New: Improved Firewall Protection

Your McAfee product gives you complete inbound and outbound security that automatically

trusts known good programs and helps block known spyware, Trojans, and key loggers.

The ﬁrewall also defends against hacker probes and attacks, monitors Internet and network

activity, alerts you to hostile or suspicious events, and provides detailed information about

Internet trafﬁc. The ﬁrewall features “Stealth Mode,” which allows you to use the Internet and

stay under the radar of hackers or anyone who might want to target you or your computer.

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McAfee®Total Protection Quick-Start Guide

How to Use Firewall Protection

The ﬁrewall protection is pre-conﬁgured and requires no action by you. If you are a

technically savvy user and want to re-conﬁgure ﬁrewall, please refer to the Advanced Menu

within SecurityCenter.

How to Use Stealth Mode

You can switch to Stealth Mode by clicking Internet & Network from the main SecurityCenter

console. Click the Conﬁgure feature, and then under Firewall protection, click Advanced.

Look for the Security Level slide. You can increase your security level depending on how

hidden you want to be. If you want to turn Stealth Mode on, move the gauge to Stealth.

What’s New: PC Health and Performance Tools

Your product includes PC health and performance tools that help optimize your PC, keeping

it clean and running smoothly. With these built-in tools, you can safely remove unnecessary

junk ﬁles and other temporary ﬁles. Also, you can use “Disk Defragmenter” to defragment

your PC and “Task Scheduler” to schedule a regular time to automatically run cleaning tasks.

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How to Use: PC Health and Performance Tools

Access these features from the Common Tasks > Maintain Computer section.

Click Maintain Computer.

You can remove accumulated junk from your computer by simply clicking Start under the

McAfee QuickClean section.

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McAfee®Total Protection Quick-Start Guide

You can start the defrag process on your hard drive by clicking the Analyze button.

While performing a disk defrag, you will see this screenshot.

After the analysis is complete, click Defragment to defrag your hard drive.

You can set an exact time and date for your computer to automatically clean your PC.

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McAfee®Total Protection Quick-Start Guide

What’s New: Back Up & Restore

This feature saves copies of your most valuable ﬁles wherever you want, encrypting and

storing your ﬁles on a CD/DVD, or USB, external, or network drive.

How to Use: Back Up & Restore

Select the Backup & Restore option under Common Tasks. Create your McAfee Backup

account, by clicking Create a McAfee Data Backup Account.

From there select the ﬁles and/or folders you wish to have backed up and select the Back Up

Now button in the upper left corner.

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