User’s Guide 19
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McAfee Firewall
McAfee F irewall is a personal firewall that lets you monitor, control and log
your PC 's netw ork activity. It protects you from Inter net hackers and keeps
your PC private.
McAfeeFirewallfilterstrafficatthedevicesthatyoursystemuses-network
cards and mode ms. T his means that it can reject inbound traffic before that
traffic can reach vital fun ctions in your PC and before it c an w aste valuable
system resources.
It monitor s applications that ar e either trusted or not truste d. Whe n truste d
applications need to access a netw ork, it m anages everything in the c omputer
to allow that app lica tio n's t ra ffic. When it detects non-tr usted applications
trying to access a network, it blocks all traffic to and from that application.
McAfee PGP Personal Privacy
McAf e e PGP Perso nal Privacy protects the privacy of your email messages
and files via encryption so that only the intended recipients can read them.
You can also digitally signed messages an d files ensuring its authen ticity and
verifying that information has not been tampered in any way.
Features of the McAfee PGP Personal Privacy include:
• P hotographic User ID. You can add your photograph to your public k ey.
When you r Photo ID is signed, it provides additional information when
verifying your key.
• PGPdisk Functionality. This encrypti on application enables you to set
as ide an area of disk space for s toring your sensitive or p e rsonal data.
• S ignature Verification. When signat u res colle cte d on keys are
automatically verified when added to y our ring, this feature allows you
to reverify signatures for added security.
• U nknown Recipient or Signer Server Lookup. When decrypting o r
verify ing a message, you can automatically perform a server lookup via
this feature. PGP sc ans all the k eys which the m essage is encrypted to or
sign ed by to determine the identity of the reci pient or signer.
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