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Getting Started with McAfee Internet Security 5.0
You can respond to the alert message in the following ways:
Drive Format Alert Message
When a format command is started, McAfee Internet Security doesn’t know
whether you told your PC to format a Zip disk or whether a rogue ActiveX
control has started to format your hard disk. You know that this activity is
legitimate when you start the formatting command or if you know that a
program you are using needs to format a hard disk (or a Zip or Jaz disk).
When McAfee Internet Security detects a format command, it displays an alert
message that tells you which program started the format command.
If you don’t know why your disk is being formatted, note the name of the
program in the alert message and then turn off your computer using its power
switch. If the program has the letters OCX as part of its name, it is an ActiveX
control. Do not restart your browser until you have run a Security CheckUp
and removed the suspicious ActiveX control from your PC.
Click Continue if you want the program to format your disk.
Why should I change my File Guardian settings?
You may want to change your settings under the following circumstances:
If you choose ... Then McAfee Internet Security ...
Not this time w Stops the ActiveX control from running this time.
If you change your mind, reload the page in your
browser and click Allow this time the next time McAfee
Internet Security displays its ActiveX delete message.
This time only
w Permits the ActiveX control to delete files just this time.
Use this option If you ...
ActiveX scans my
drive
w want to be warned when an ActiveX control looks
through the files on your PC.
This may happen legitimately if the control needs to find
a file to use. If you are concerned, check with the site
that sent you the control.
ActiveX deletes files
from my drive
w want to be warned when an ActiveX control deletes a
files.
This may happen legitimately if the control is deleting
older or temporary files that it uses. If you are
concerned, check with the site that sent you the control.