Personal Firewall Plus by McAfee

What Is McAfee Personal Firewall Plus?

 

The McAfee Personal Firewall Plus is a powerful virus and spyware prevention package for the home PC user. Rather than attempting to scan and remove undesirable applications a firewall monitors and limits communication to and from your computer. Typically, businesses and organizations use a firewall because it provides a potentially greater level of protection when compared to other options such as anti-virus and anti-spyware software.

Protecting Against Hackers With A Firewall

A Firewall can prevent both incoming and outgoing traffic. As well as ensuring that no software is covertly downloaded onto your system, the McAfee Personal Firewall Plus ensures that scripts and software on your computer are equally unable to transmit data back to the Internet. Many spyware applications use your Internet connection in order to return personal data back to a host server. A Firewall effectively prevents this from occurring.

Your Trusted Network

Users can establish their own trusted network of sites and pages. The Firewall can be configured so that it allows or prevents access for specific programs or to specific websites. By enabling traffic between your private network and only trusted sites you can prevent any form of incoming or outgoing traffic that you do not believe to be safe. However, when you first visit a website or open a new program that attempts to open communication over the Internet you will be prompted to determine whether this should be allowed or prevented. You can also choose to make this decision a permanent one.

Configured To Your Needs

You can configure the McAfee Personal Firewall Plus in order that applications like your Internet browser or your email client can automatically access the Internet. As part of your trusted network you will be able to browse the Internet and send and receive emails without unnecessary interruption. Whenever you install new software it can be added to your trusted network in order that you can continue to use your computer effectively while still ensuring the integrity of your system and the safety of all home network users.

Integration With Other McAfee Products

McAfee Personal Firewall Plus can be integrated with McAfee antivirus to ensure complete privacy and protection against online threats. It also links directly to an anti-hacking database and a hacker activity map. This access provides you with threat specific advice to help you deal with any particularly troublesome attempts to access your computer. Tools that enable you to test the security of your system and run free scans are also provided as a part of the Worldwide Hacker Activity Map membership.

Simple Installation

Installation is quick and simple so beginners can quickly install everything that’s required to protect their computers. There are also several different automated protection levels available. These range from “Open” to “Lockdown” and can be altered through the main McAfee Firewall Plus control panel. This negates the need to establish a trusted network of websites and allows for the quick and easy changing of access levels.

Flexibility And Usability

The McAfee Personal Firewall Plus provides extensive controls. Whether you are an advanced user looking to create single user, single session access or make wholesale changes using pre-configured access levels it offers a superb level of protection against third party, external threats. The flexibility and ease of use that this provides makes the McAfee Personal Firewall Plus a superb way to ensure your personal privacy while online.

McAfee Personal Firewall Plus

McAfee Personal Firewall Plus works exceptionally well as a standalone product. It will protect against most hackers and integration with McAfee antivirus protection gives you complete peace of mind that your PC is also protected against malicious codes and scripts as well. The Worldwide Hacker Database contains information specific to individual threats and provides the tools to scan your computer and remove these individual threats.

 

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