Mcafee STUDENT SURVIVAL KIT 1.0 User Manual

Student Survival Kit

Getting Started

Version 1.0

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Table of Contents

Chapter1. WelcometoStudentSurvivalKit......................11

Programsandfeatures............................................11

CentralInterface.............................................11

Single update button . . . . . . . . . . . ..............................12

McAfeeVirusScan ...........................................12

QuickClean .................................................12

WinGauge ..................................................12

ConfigurationAssistant.......................................12

RegistryBackupandRestore ..................................13

Safe & Sound . . . . ...........................................13

McAfeeImage...............................................13

McAfeeScheduler ...........................................13

RescueDisk ................................................13

AdBlocking ................................................13

EmailEncryption ............................................13

BrowserBuddy..............................................13

Cool Tools . . . . . . . ...........................................14

About Student Survival Kit documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..............14

StudentSurvivalKitonlineHelp................................14

Chapter2. InstallingStudentSurvivalKit ........................17

Systemrequirements .............................................17

Installing Student Survival Kit . . . . . . . . ..............................17

Troubleshooting installation problems ..............................17

Step1:Cleanupyourharddrive ...............................18

Step2:Removetemporaryfiles ................................19

Step3:Closeothersoftware...................................19

Chapter3. UsingStudentSurvivalKit ...........................21

StudentSurvivalKitHomescreen ..................................21

Options ....................................................21

ConfigurationAssistant ..................................21

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UsingVirusScan .................................................23

UsingQuickClean................................................23

UsingBackupandRestore ........................................24

UsingInternetOptions............................................32

WinGauge..............................................21

TheMostImportantGauges ..........................22

WorkingWithGauges................................22

Help .......................................................23

RegistryBackup.............................................25

BackingUpRegistry .....................................25

RestoringRegistry.......................................25

Safe & Sound . . . . ...........................................25

Protected Volume Files (The Ultimate Backup Protection) . . . . . .26

Why You Should Make Regular Backups With Safe & Sound . . . .26

How Safe & Sound Creates Automatic Backups ..............27

Defining Your Backup Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..............28

WhereWillYouStoretheBackupSet?......................28

WhatFilesareImportanttoYou? ..........................29

How Often Should You or Safe & Sound Make Backups? . . . . . . .29

McAfeeImage...............................................30

CreatinganImageofYourDisks ...........................30

SettingImageProperties .................................31

RestoringDrivesFromanImageFile .......................31

RescueDisk ................................................31

UsingaRescueDisk .....................................32

AdBlocking ................................................32

EmailEncryption ............................................33

BrowserBuddy..............................................33

.......................................................34

Appendix A. Product Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

HowtoContactMcAfee ...........................................35

Customerservice............................................35

Technical support ...........................................36

Supportviatheweb......................................36

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Supportforumsandtelephonecontact......................36

McAfeetraining .............................................37

Index.......................................................39

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1Welcome to Student Survival Kit

Thank you for purchasing McAfee’s Student Survival Kit; a suite of powerful
and easy-to-use Windows software utilities that helps keep your PC working
at optimum efficiency and speed, as well as diagnosing, repairing, and
protecting your PC and its valuable data.

Programs and features

1

Central Interface

The Student Survival Kit has an integrated central interface for you to easily
access the individual components of the product suite. From the main screen,
you are also able to view via the quick-glance windows, additional
information such as the last time a diagnostic test was performed onyour PC,
the last time the user checked for new updates, etc.

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Single update button

Student SurvivalKit canautomatically update all of the installedcomponents
via clicking the Update button in the main screen. The Update feature uses
McAfeeSoftware Update Finder to searchfor any availableupdates–including
updated virus pattern files–to Student Survival Kit software, downloads and
installs them.

Student Survival Kit displays the McAfee Software Update Finder via a Web
browser to check for updates. If an update is available, it downloads and
installs it automatically for you.

McAfee VirusScan

McAfee VirusScan provides complete desktop protection with an array of
scanning features that keep your system clean, mean, and virus-free. Using
only the latesttechnology, VirusScan detects 100%of viruses includingfloppy
disks, Internet downloads, email attachments, Intranets, shared files,
CD-ROM, and online services (even inside the most popular compressed file
types).

QuickClean

QuickClean wizard removes unused files in the cache folder of your Internet
browser. It also removes any temporary files in folders that are used by
applications and Windows. In addition, it cleans up shortcuts, Registry
entries, and removereferencesin operating systemfiles that aren ot connected
to any application.

WinGauge

WinGauge is a dynamic reporting tool that constantly monitors your use of
Windows and yourapplications, toalert you topotential problems beforethey
become serious.

Information about your systemis displayed usinggauges. You canselect what
to monitor and the type of gauge to use. Most importantly, you can choose
when y ou want to be notified in the eventthat yourspecified limits have been
reached.

Configuration Assistant

This feature is designed to assist you via an interview to further customize
how you want the components of Student Survival Kit to work on your
computer.

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Registry Backup and Restore

This utility allows you to easily backup or restore your Windows registry.

Safe & Sound

This utility allows you to create automatic or interactive backups of selected
drives, directories, files, or file types. You can back up to a protected volume
file (a separate area on the drive).

McAfee Image

Allows you to save a copy ofcritical disk information ina file and restores the
image later if your disk is corrupted.

McAfee Scheduler

Allows youto automatically scheduleupdates and tasks you want toperform
on your computer at any given time.

Rescue Disk

Welcome to Student Survival Kit

Creates a custom rescue disk that you can use to boot up your PC and begin
recovery if you can’t start from the system hard drive.

Ad Blocking

Allows you toconfigure StudentSurvival Kit to silentlyfilter advertising from
Web pages that you do not want to view when surfing the Internet.

Email Encryption

This feature allows you to protect your email messages from being read by
other users without your knowledge.

Browser Buddy

Browser Buddyallows youtostore passwords on specificWebsite so youonly
need to drag and drop them without typing itin everytimeyou accessthe site.

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Cool Tools

Winamp

Nullsoft’s Winamp is an ultimate high-fidelity music player for Windows
95/98/NT. Itsupports MP3, CD and other audio formats, more than 5,000
skins and 150 audio visualization and effect plug-ins. Winamp is freeware.

For more information, visit their Web site at www.winamp.com

PowWow

PowWow® is a fully integrated instant messaging, interactive
communications and online community solution. It is a highly scalable
distributed community server (DCS)architecture that enablesusers to quickly
and easily create, host, and moderate their own private, personalized online
communities.

For more information visit their Web site at www.powwow.com

About Student Survival Kit documentation

This Getting Started manual provides the basic information you need to
install, setup and use Student Survival Kit. More detailed information and
step-by-stepinstructionson how toperform a task within Student Survival Kit
is provided via the Help files which you can access while working within the
different windows and dialog boxes. You can also review the Readme.txt file
which contain other general information about the product.

Student Survival Kit online Help

To launch Student Survival Kithelp:

In the StudentSurvival Kit mainscreen,click theHelp icon. TheHelpcontents
is displayed.

You can also search for a help topic via the Index or Find tabs.

•Indextab

1. In the text box, type the first few letters of the word or phrase you are
looking for.

2. Locate what you are looking for; then double-click the topic or click the
Display button.

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• Find tab

Clicking the Find tab enables you to launch a full text search. When you
search for topics via the Find tab for the first time, a Find Setup Wizard is
displayed. Follow the instructions on screen to setup the full text search
option. After setup is complete:

1. In the text box, type the first few letters of the word or phrase you are
looking for. You can also select matching words to narrow your search.

2. Once youhave located what you are looking forin thedisplay topic box,
click the topic.

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Welcome to Student Survival Kit

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2Installing Student Survival Kit

Most installation problems are a caused by having programs running while
you try to install new software. Even if the installation appears normal, you
won’tbe able torun the newprogram. To avoidinstallation problems, closeall
open programs before you install Student Survival Kit, including programs
thatruninthebackground,suchasscreensaversorviruscheckers.

System requirements

To use Student Survival Kit you need the following disk space requirements:

• 25 MB to completely install Student Survival Kit (including VirusScan).

• 2.5 MB for WinAmp.

• 10 MB for PowWow.

Installing Student Survival Kit

After closing all open programs, you are ready to install Student Survival Kit
on your PC.

2

To ins tal lStudent Survi valKit

1. Close all open programs.

2. Insert the Student Survival Kit CD in the CD-ROM drive.

3. In the Student Survival Kit Setup screen, click Install Student Survival
Kit.

 NOTE: If the setup screen doesn’t start automatically when you

close your CD-ROMdrive, click Start onthe Windows taskbar,click
Run, then typed:\setup. If Dis not thedrive letter ofyour CD-ROM
drive, substitute the correct drive letter.

Troubleshooting installation problems

A failed installation can cause software problems that are difficult to track
down. The major causes of installation failure are:

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Installing Student Survival Kit

• Hard drive errors

• Temporary files that conflict with the installation

• Attempting to install while other software is running

Follow the procedure outlined below to minimize the affect that these
common conditions may have on your installation.

Step 1: Clean up your hard drive

Run the Windows 95 hard drive utilities, ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter to
identify and fix any errors on your hard drive:

1. Click Start on theWindows taskbar, pointto Programs, thenAccessories,
then System Tools, and click ScanDisk.

2. In the ScanDisk window, select Standard and Automatically fix errors.

NOTE: These are the default settings.

3. Click Advanced. In the Advanced Settings dialog box, make sure the
following settings are selected:

4. Ignore the other options, and click OK. Click Start. ScanDisk begins

5. When ScanDisk is finished, close ScanDisk.

6. Click Start on theWindows taskbar, pointto Programs, thenAccessories,

7. Click OK tostart Disk Defragmenter. Depending on the speed of your

8. Close Disk Defragmenter when it has finished defragmenting yourdisk.

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• Only if errors found

• Replace log

• Delete

• Free

scanning your driveforerrors. Dependin g onthe size ofyourhard drive,
ScanDisk may take several minutes to complete its job.

then System Tools, and click Disk Defragmenter.

computer and the size of your drive, this may take several minutes to
complete.

Step 2: Remove temporary files

Delete the contents of the Windows Temp folder:

1. Double-clickthe My Computericonon your desktop. The MyComputer
window opens. Double-click the C: drive. You are now viewing the
contents of your hard drive.

2. Double-click the Windows folder.

3. In the Windows folder, double-click the Temp folder.

4. In the menu, click Edit,then click SelectAll. Allof theitemsin your Temp
folder are highlighted.

5. Press the Deletekey on yourkeyboard to delete the files. If Windows
asks about deleting files, click Yes.

6. In the Windows taskbar, click Start, then click Shut Down.

7. Click Restart the computer, then click Yes in the Shut Down Windows
dialog box to restart your PC.

Step 3: Close other software

Installing Student Survival Kit

Disable all software running in the background:

1. Hold down the Ctrl and Alt keys on your keyboard, and then press the
Delete key once. The Close Program dialog box appears.

2. Click End Task for every item on the list except Explorer.

3. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you’ve closed everything except Explorer.

4. When you see only Explorer in the Close Program dialog box, click
Cancel.

You are now ready to install your new software.

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3Using Student Survival Kit

McAfee’s Student Survival Kit contains a suite of utility programs that cover
every aspect of your computer’shealth, performance, andmaintenance. Some
ofthetestsareveryspecificwhilemanyaremoregeneralandallowyouto
check your computer’s performance efficiency with one click of a button.

These utilities provide you with diagnostic, preventive, and security tools to
help maintain your PC’s health and well-being.

Student Survival Kit Home screen

Options

Configuration Assistant

This option is designed to assist you in activating and further customizing
how Student Survival Kit components should work on your computer. It
walks you through a series of configuration questions during the installation
process.

It includes configurations such as automatically scheduling tasks that a
component of the Student Survival Kit can perform on your computer. You
can also indicate how often a particular task should be performed.

3

WinGauge

After this interview is completed, a summary detail is displayed listing all of
the components that will be launched at startup so the you can see exactly
what features will be loaded after boot-up.

WinGauge is a dynamic reporting tool that constantly monitors your use of
Windows and yourapplications, toalert you topotential problems beforethey
become serious.

Information about your systemis displayed usinggauges. You canselect what
to monitor and the type of gauge to use. Most importantly, you can choose
when y ou want to be notified in the eventthat yourspecified limits have been
reached.

WinGauge allows you to get into the habit of constantly monitoring your
system so you can take actions toprevent situations where errors couldoccur.

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Using Student SurvivalKit

You can choose to have one, two, or more gauges to be active at any one
time—with each gauge reporting on the status of your system. The more
advanced you are,or the moredemanding your projects,the more gaugesyou
may want to keep active to monitor particular aspects of your computer and
applications.

By using WinGauge, and by customizing the gauges to your own specific
needs, you will be warned about potential problems in time to take the
necessary preventative steps.

WinGauge alerts you so that you can save your data, close programs, or take
other actions to prevent your system from slowing down, crashing, or
locking-up. As an added bonus, you can also drag application icons and
folders into WinGauge so that the program becomes your one-stop system
monitoring and application launch pad.

The Most Important Gauges

The following list summarizes the most important gauges to have active:

• Highest Resources–The Highest Resources gauge measures “system

resources”—small, critical memoryregionsin Windows itself.Whenany of
these regions fill up, your system may crash. You can increase your
resources by closing some applications.

• Virtual Memory–TheVirtual Memory gauge measures howmuch ofyour

disk swap fileis in use.Themore ofyour swap fileyou use, theslower your
system will run. If your swap file fills up, your system may crash.

• If you find that your virtual memory is frequently high, you should
consider buying and installing more RAM and making more room
available on your Windows drive.

• Swap File Requests–The Swap File Requests gauge measures how often
Windows is accessing the swap file. The more frequently Windows
accesses, the less efficient your overall system.

• Drive Space–The Drive Spacegauge measuresthe amountof roomleft on
your drives.If adisk fills up while a program is running, yoursystem may
crash.

Working With Gauges

In WinGauge, you can set global gauge commands or set specific commands
foreachgauge.Youcanalsoadd,update,orremovegauges.

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NOTE: For step-by-step instructions and more information on how to
use WinGauge,refer to the McAfee Student Survival Kit online Helpfile.

Help

If you need step-by-step instructions on how to perform a particular task
within any of the components ofStudent Survival Kit, clickthe Help icon as it
appears on the right-hand side of any screen to display available Help topics.

Using VirusScan

McAfee VirusScan provides complete desktop protection with an array of
scanning features that keep your system clean, mean, and virus-free. Using
only the latesttechnology, VirusScan detects 100%of viruses includingfloppy
disks, Internet downloads, email attachments, Intranets, shared files,
CD-ROM, and online services (even inside the most popular compressed file
types).

• VirusScan’s award-winning scanning engine Hunter,includes
ground-breaking variant detection and heuristic technology that detects
even new unknown macro viruses before they have a chance to inflict
damage.

• SecureCast. ensures that your virus signature files are always the latest.
New updates are pushed directly to your desktop the moment they are
released.

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• AVERT (Anti-Virus Emergency Research Team) staffs more than 85
experiencedvirus researchers aroundthe world,providing customerswith
unparalleled follow-the-sun support. AVERT even makes hourly beta
virus signature files available to all customers 24 hours a day.

NOTE: For step-by-step instructions and more information on how to
use McAfee VirusScan, refer to the McAfee Student Survival Kit online
Help file.

Using QuickClean

QuickClean wizard performs any of the following actions to keep your
computer free of unused files and invalid shortcuts:

• Remove unused files in the cache folder of your Internet browser.

• Remove any temporary files in folders that are used by applications and

Windows.

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• Clean up shortcuts, Registry entries, and remove references in operating
system files that are not connected to any application.

• Empty the Recycle Bin.

To set up QuickClean:

1. Click Cleanup in the main Student Survival Kit window.

2. Follow the instructions on the succeeding screens. The default settings

To change the QuickClean sched ule:

1. Right-click the redand white McAfee Agent icon in the clock area of the

2. In the What’s Scheduled dialog box, select QuickClean and click

3. IntheEventScheduledialogbox,choosethetimeintervalfor

will be displayed through the wizard screens, you can change it
according to your preference.

taskbar, and then select What’s Scheduled on the menu.

Schedule.

QuickClean to run from the dropdown list box.

Using Backup and Restore

The Backup and Restore feature is designed to assist you in handling the
Registry component of your computer. The Registry is a repository for all the
informationabout your hardware, software and network settings,
configuration settings (such as desktop colors), plug-and-play data, program
initialization settings, and so on.

Each time you add or remove programs or hardware, or even if you change
your desktop and customization settings, the Registry is updated. These
changes can affect the Registry in a number of ways. Some settings no longer
do anything (especiallyif you haveremoved aprogram). Others are no longer
in theoptimal place. New settings may adversely affect older settings,even to
the pointof rendering applications or hardware devices inoperable. And, as
the Registrychanges, just like the hard disk, itbecomes fragmented. The more
fragmenteditbecomes,thesloweryoursystemruns.

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Registry Backup

With Registry Backup, you have the following two options:

• Back-up your registry: This backs up your current registry.

• Restore your registry: If you select Restore, a list of registry backups

appear. The registry that setup backed up originally is called Original.

Backing Up Regist ry

Use the following procedure to back up your registry.

1. Launch the RegistryBackup &Restore Wizardvia the Student Survival Kit
window.

2. When the the Registry Backup & Restore Wizard appears, select Backup
and click Next. The next panel of the Registry Backup & Restore window
appears.

3. Type a comment in the textbox, and then click Finish to complete the
backup process.

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Use the following procedure to restore your registry, using a backup.

1. Launch the RegistryBackup &Restore Wizardvia the Student Survival Kit
window.

2. When the the Registry Backup & Restore Wizard appears, select Restore
and click Next. The next panel of the Registry Backup & Restore window
appears.

3. Then click Finish to complete the restore process.

Safe & Sound

The most important asset on your computer is the information, or data,you
create and store there. Over time, this data grows in size and value. The
storage devices where you keep this information are vulnerable to a wide
range of environmental and human factors that can damage or destroy all or
part of the data stored there.

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Valuable and vulnerable disk organizational structure information is also
storedin variousplaces on aharddrive. This includestheboot sector, partition
tables, directories, the FAT (file allocation table), and other structural
components. These structural components are used by Windows to find data
on the drive, organize it, andso on.If any oneof these components isdamaged
or destroyed, you will not be able toaccess thedata you’ve stored on thedrive.

The FAT, your drive’s roadmap, points to the locations where your files are
physicallystored onthe drive. Filescan either be stored in contiguous
locations or scattered in pieces in different places. Since files are not always
stored contiguously, the FAT information becomes even more indispensable
than if fileswere stored oneafter another,end to end.If a drive’sfileallocation
table becomes corrupt or scrambled (such as may be caused by a virus), your
computer will be unable to find and assemble all the pieces of your files. This
is true even if all the files’ data still exists.

Protected Volume Files (The Ultimate Backup Protection)

Safe & Sound lets you create backup sets in protected volume files, which is
the safest and preferredtype ofbackup. Aprotectedvolumefile is asectioned-off
area ofthe drive,sometimes called a logical drive. Safe & Sound’sprotected
volumefileshavesomeveryspecialcharacteristicsthatletSafe&Sound
reconstruct backup files sector by sector, even if the drive’sstandardFATis
damaged or completely lost. In fact, files can be largely reconstructed even if
large parts of the drive are unreadable or erased.

The protected volume file also includes enough information in each directory
entry to compl etely reconstructafile’s entire directorytree even ifall itsparent
nodes are erased.

Safe & Sound provides internal redundancy in the protected volume file
backups you create.It doesthis by markingeach sectorof each file thatit backs
up with identifying information about the sector’s contents and the file that
sector belongs to. Each sector in a protected volume file contains enough
information to allow files to be reconstructed from their individual sectors.

Why You Should Make Regular Backups With Safe & Sound

Your data is very valuable and costly to recreate. This means that making
frequent or even mirror backupcopies ofthe importantdata onyour drives is
crucial.Amirror backupcopy isalways identicalto the original information on
thesourcedrive.

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Safe & Sound automates theback-up process, doing thetime-consuming and
repetitive workfor you.It letsyou decidewhich typesof filesto backup, how
often to save them, and where you want the backup set located (on the same
drive, another local drive, or on a shared network drive). With Safe & Sound,
you can create mirror backup sets that are, a t any given time, an exact replica
of the files you’ve selected to back upon thesourcedrive.You can alsospecify
a short time delay in the backup, or back up manually by copying files to the
backup set on your drive if you prefer.

All forms of data storage are susceptible to losing the information they hold.
The most common types of data storage—hard drives, 3.5-inch disks, ZIP
disksor SyQuest tapes—areoften calledpermanent storage (thus differentiating
them from the volatile storage in your computer’s RAM, random access
memory). Permanent s torage means the information remains intact even
when you turn off yourcomputer. Permanent storage does not mean eternal
storage.

Many thingscan cause the data on disks, tapesor drives to become garbled or
lost: hardware malfunctions,worn out media,electrical storms,excessive heat,
static electricity, magnets, loose cable or power cord connections, and so on.
CD discs, thoughdurable, can become scratched enoughto damagetheir data.
Human actions can also cause lost data, such as deleting the wrong folder or
formatting the wrong drive. Even a well-designed application can sometimes
causeitsownfilestobecomecorrupt.

With so much at risk, you have everything to gain by allowing Safe & Sound
to automatically make backup copies for you. You simply decide what
informationis important toyou, how you want itto bebacked up, and where
you want the backup copy to be stored. Safe & Sound takes care of the rest!

How Safe & Sound Creates Automatic Backups

When you select to have Safe & Sound automatically create a backup set for
you, it creates the first backup set while you are stepping through the Safe &
Sound Wizard. Thereafter, while the Enable Automatic Backup option is
selected,itcontinuestoupdateyourbackupsetatthetimedelayyou’ve
specified. If you chose to make Mirror backups, Safe & Sound updates your
backup set at the same time that you resave the original source files.

If youselect awrite-behind delaylonger than zero seconds (a Mirror backup),
Safe & Sound updates the backup set at anytime after the specifiedtime delay
when your PC is idle. This allows Safe &Sound to workin the background so
that it does not interruptthe work you are doing. This is a good option to use
with the protected volume file backup type since it eliminates any speed loss
due to more frequent disk accesses and larger file sizes associated with the
protectedvolume file backup type.

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Defining Your Backup Strategy

After you decide which backup type you want to use (either a protected
volume fileor adirectory backup set), the most important questions youmust
answer when defining your own backup strategy are:

• Where will you store the backup set?

• What files are important (which files must be backed up)?

• How often should you or Safe & Sound make these backups?

Where Will You Store the Backup Set?

If the survival of your business depends upon your PC being up and running
at all times(and ifmoney is notan object), the ultimatewayto protect the data
on your PCwould betoset up aredundantPC with identicalsized drives. This
backup PC’s only job would be to mirror the data on your primary PC. It
would be waiting in the wings should your first PCfail for any reason. And if
that happened, you couldsimply switchyour work tothe second PC whilethe
first one is repaired.

Often money isa consideration in deciding where you’ll store your backup
sets. The least expensive way of making backups has traditionally been to
copy data to 3.5-inch disks, though this is the most labor intensive way of
storing backups because it requires you to switch disks by hand.

In today’scomputermarketplace,youmaydiscoverthatitisascosteffective
to acquire a separate backup hard drive where you can keep a current mirror
backup copy of one or more other drives that you use on your PC.

In addition, you may want the backup copy to be stored at a remote location,
for increased protection. As long as Safe & Sound can access a logical drive
mapped on your PC, it can store th e backup set there. That is, the backup set
canbestoredonasharednetworkdrive.

 NOTE: YoucanusetheMapNetworkDrivecommand,availableby

Even if you cannot invest in another drive or disks for storing your backups,
you can still create a backup copy of your data on the same drive. This offers
the least protection should that drive fail, but the potential for datarecovery is
increased by havingtwo setsof your mostimportant information stored there.
It is further enhanced if you select the protected volume file backup type,
which allows recovery in many circumstances even with the drive physically
damaged.

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Right-clicking My Computer, to assign (map) a drive letter to a location
on a network drive. This makes that location a “logical drive” on your
PC. For more details, see your Windows online Help.

 NOTE: If your data usually resides on a server, you can make a local

copy so y ou can access data even when the server goes down.

What Files are Important to Yo u?

Safe & Sound automatically selects filesthat aretypically importantto include
in a backup set. However, you can select other files or types of files to include
in your backup set.

In addition, you can create multiple backup sets of data for particular
purposes. Each of these backup sets can be created when and where you
specify. They caneach includeexactly the filesor typesoffiles thatyou choose.
For example, you might create individual backup sets for each of your clients
if you produce data for clients that is stored on your computer, such as
advertising layouts, graphic images, books, or accounting data.

How Often Should You or Safe & Sound Make Backups?

The more recent your backup set, the happier you’ll be if your PC does
encounter a problem that compromises the data on your primary drives.
However, you maywant to keepthe default Write-behindDelay of 20minutes
to give you time to recover a previous version of a file if you ever need to.

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TIP: Save early, save often. While working in applications, you can
almostalwayspress C
you save your work, the less you have to lose at any given point in time.
You may also want to be sure the auto-save option is selected in your
applications for more frequent backups.

NOTE: For step-by-step instructions and more information on how to
use Safe & Sound, refer to the McAf ee Student Survival Kit online Help
file.

TRL-S to saveyour work asyou go.The more often

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McAfee Image

Although it happens rarely, data stored ona hard drive can become damaged
in severalways. Forexample, the electric company maybe working down the
street and accidentally send a spike, or power surge, to your PC. Even if you
use a surge protector and connect all the computer’spowercordsandthe
modem’s phone line to a surge protector (instead of connecting them directly
to wall connectors), power surges can still reach your PC and cause lost or
corrupted data.

An important step in preventing disaster is using McAfee Image to make a
“snapshot” of the most critical areas on your hard drives. Since even a recent
backup copy is still notas goodas recovering your current data,you’ll want to
try to recover the latest data first if anything goes wrong. If you use Image to
makea snapshot of themost crucialinformationon your drives, then if adrive
becomes corrupted, you canuse Restoreto restorethe mostcurrent versionof
your data.

McAfee Imagesaves information that you’ll need if your hard disk ever fails,
including the boot record, partition tables and FAT information. It’s a good
idea to run McAfee Image daily, as well as whenever you’ve reorganized a
disk’s files using a defragmenter. This ensures that you can use Image’s
Restore option to restore the latest states of your files and folders (or
directories). Image stores its information in a file on your hard drive. This file
is stored using a special, patent-pending method that allows the file to be
recovered even if the hardware is severely damaged.

 NOTE:Set the Image Properties sheet optionto run Image automatically

each time you start Windows. Image will examine your system and
update the imageonly ifneeded. Doing thisensures you alwayshave the
latest data saved for your disks.

Creating an Image of Your Disks

Creating an image copy ofyour hard disks asa file (nbimage.dat)onlytakes
a moment. You should create a new image file any time you’ve rearranged
files or added many new files to your hard drive.

To createan image of your hard drives, select the Create a New ImageBackup
option and click Finish. Image saves the
hard drive, and displays a message letting you know the process is complete.
Click OK.

Be sure to create a Rescue disk using McAfee Utilities’ Rescue Disk. Rescue
Disk places some Image information on your 3.5-inch disk.

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nbimage.dat file on your system

Setting Image Properties

You can setImage Propertiesto specifywhether Image savesthe FileAllocation
Tables (FAT), which is a roadmap or index to where all the pieces of files on a

disk drive are located. Most likely, you’llwant to keep this check box selected.
You can also haveImage create a newimage copyof your hard disks each time
you start Windows (recommended).

Restoring Drives From an Image File

When all else fails, you can restore the critical information on one or more
drives from an image file. Restoring an image file does NOTrecover deleted
files. If you have deleted data fil es that you need, you can restore a copy of
them from your last backup set (protected volume file or directory) created
with Safe & Sound.

 WARNING: Do not restore an image, except as a last resort. The Image

file does not contain your data files, those are located in your Safe &
Sound backup set.

NOTE: For step-by-step instructions and more information on how to
use McAfee Image, referto the McAfee StudentSurvival Kitonline Help
file.

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Rescue Disk

Rescue Disk letsyoucreate an emergencyboot disk thatyoucan use toboot up
your PC if you encounter a problem that prevents you from starting the
computer from the system hard drive. The system hard drive is the hard drive
that contains your Windows directory or folder.

 NOTE:The rescue diskset bootsfroma floppy butincludesa companion

ZIP or SyQuest disk that lets you run Windows in a paired-down
configuration to try to recoveryour system in theevent of a catastrophe.
The largecompanion rescue disk also containscritical parts ofWindows
that can help recover your system in the event some portions of
Windows becomedamaged. To use this feature, simply run Rescue D isk
on a system that hasa ZIP orotherhigh-capacity removable media drive
and follow the on-screen instructions.

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To create a Rescue Disk:

1. ClicktheNext>buttonintheEmergencyDiskWizard.

2. Follow the screen instructions.

3. Click Next >. Then click Finish.

4. Insert a disk into drive A and click OK.

RescueDiskformatsthediskandcopiescriticalstartupfilestoit,aswellas
any files you added. When the process is complete, Rescue Disk exits and
returns to the desktop.

Using a Rescue Disk

Insert your Rescue disk into drive A, reboot your computer (or turn on the
power). Ifyour system doesn’t boot, access CMOSand make surethe Booting
From Floppy option is enabled. Then follow the instructions on the screen.

NOTE: For more information on how to use Rescue Disk, refer to the
McAfee Student Survival Kit online Help file.

Using Internet Options

Ad Blocking

This screen allows you to configure Student Survival Kit to silently filter
advertisingfromWebpagesthatyoudonotwanttoviewwhilebrowsingthe
Internet. This component is able to to identufy text patterns through the URL
address (e.g., /live_ads/, /adbanner/,etc).

• If you select to activate Ad blocking, you have the option to add, edit or
remove text patterns already identified by Student Survival Kit.

•·To add ablocked textpattern, click Add. Anentry iscreated in theBlocked
Text Pattern dialog box, enter the substring; then click Apply.

•·To edit anexisting text pattern,select from theBlocked TextPattern dialog
box; click Edit. The click Apply.

•·To remove an existing text pattern, select from the Blocked Text Pattern
dialog box; click Remove. Then click Apply.

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Email Encryption

• If you are using an email application supported by the plug-ins, you can
encrypt and sign your messages by selecting the appropriate options from
your application’stoolbar.

• If youremail application isnot supported bytheplug-ins, youcan copy the
message to the clipboard and perform the appropriate functions from
there. If youwant to includeany file attachments, you canencrypt and sign
them from the Windows Explorer before attaching them to your email.

For more information, see the Student Survival Kit online Help.

Browser Buddy

You can depend on Browser Buddy to help you easily navigate through the
intricacies of the Web. For example, when you connect to Web sites that
require a name and password, you can use Browser Buddy to:

• Drag your username orpassword from Password Manager and drop it on
the login form for the Web site.

• Add new password information for a Web site.

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You can also run the Password Manager from its dialog box.
To open Browser Buddy, right-click the McAfee Guardian icon on the

Windows taskbar, then click Browser Buddy. The dialog box is displayed.

To add a new username and password:

1. In Browser Buddy, select Add New Entry from the Password Manager
drop-down list. The Enter password to save dialog box is displayed.

2. In the Web site text box, enter the Web site address; in the Username text
box, type the name by which you identify yourself to this Web site, this
may correspond to User Name, Member ID, Member Name, Login ID, or
Login Name, and so on.

3. In the Password text box, type the password that confirms your identity.
(In Password Manager, Internet Guard Dog displays one asterisk for each
characterinyourpassword.)

4. Click OK.

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To retrieveyour username and password:

1. InBrowser Buddy, selectthe site nameif it doesn’tappear automatically in
the Current Web Site list.

2. Drag your username or password from the Password Manager box to
appropriate field in your Web site’s login form. The text appears in the
field. (If the site that youare logging into displays your password text as a
series of asterisks( *), StudentSurvival Kit willdisplay one asteriskfor each
characterinyourpassword.)

3. Continue logging in as usual to the Web site.

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AProduct Support

BEFORE YOU CONTACT McAfee Software for technical support, locate
yourself near the computer with Student Survival Kit installed and verify the
information listed below:

• Have you sent in your product registration card?

• Version of Student Survival Kit

• Customer number if registered

• Model name of hard disk (internal or external)

• Version of system software

• Amount of memory (RAM)

• Extra cards, boards or monitors

• Name and version of conflicting software

• EXACT error message as on screen

• What steps were performed prior to receiving error message?

A

• A complete description of problem

How to Contact McAfee

Customer service

To order products or obtain product information, contact the McAfee
Customer Service department at [phone] or write to the following
address:

McAfee Software
3965 FreedomCircle
Santa Clara, CA 95054
U.S.A.

You can also order products online at http://store.mcafee.com

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Product Support

If you need further assistance or have specific questions about our products,
send your questions via email to the appropriate address below:

• For general questions about ordering software: [e-mail]

• For help in downloading software: [e-mail]

• For a status on an existing order: [e-mail]

To inquire about a promotion: [e-mail]

Technical support

Support via the web

McAfee is famous for its dedication to customer satisfaction. We have
continued this tradition by making our site on the World Wide Web
(http://www.mcafee.com) a valuable resource for answers to technical
support issues.

We encourage you tomake thisyour first stop for answersto frequentlyasked
questions,for updates toMcAfeesoftware, and foraccess toMcAfeenews and
virus information.

Take advantage of the McAfee Product KnowledgeCenter—your free online
product support center - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
(http://support.mcafee.com/tech_supp/pkc.asp).

Support forums and telephone contact

Ifyoudonotfindwhatyouneedordonothavewebaccess,tryoneofour
automated services.

Table A-1.

World WideWeb www.mcafee.com
CompuServe GO MCAFEE
America Online keyword MCAFEE
Microsoft Network mcafee

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If the automated services do not have theanswers you need, please contact
McAfee at the following numbers Monday through Friday between 9:00 AM
and 6:00 PM Pacific time for 30-day free support, and 24 hours a day - 7 days
aweekforPerMinuteorPerIncidentsupport.

30-Day FreeTelephone Support 972-308-9960
Per MinuteTelephone Support 1-900-225-5624
Per IncidentTelephone Support($35) 1-800-950-1165

McAfee training

For information about scheduling on-site training for any McAfee product,
call [phone].

Disclaimer:Timeandtelephonenumbersaresubjecttochangewithoutprior
notice.

Product Support

Table A-1.

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Index

A

Ad Blocking13, 32
Agent

scheduling QuickClean 24

B

Backing Up Registry 25
Backup

strategies 28

Backups

automatic 27
frequency of saving 29
where to store them 28
why you need them 26

Browser Buddy 13

to 29

, 33

C

Configuration Assistant 12
Cool Tools 14

E

Email Encryption13, 33
emergency boot disk 31

Internet Options 32

M

Map NetworkDrive 28
McAfee Image13, 30
McAfee Scheduler13
McAfee VirusScan12
mirror backup 26

O

Options 21

P

permanent storage

definition 27

Protected Volume

Files 26

Q

QuickClean 12
QuickClean wizard

setting defaults for 24

F

File

Allocation Table 31

I

Image

Properties 31

R

Registry 24
Registry Backup 25
Registry Backup and Restore 13
Rescue Disk 13, 31
Restoring Registry 25

S

Safe & Sound 13, 25
server

backup a local copy of files 29

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Settings dialog box

QuickClean options 24
Student Survival Kit online Help 14
System

hard drive31
System requirements 17

U

Using Backup and Restore 24
Using QuickClean 23
Using VirusScan 23

W

Windows

95/98 Registry 24
WinGauge 12
wizards

QuickClean

?? to 24

Index

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