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Placing the cursor over an icon displays a safety balloon that summarizes the safety report for

a site. Click

More Info

or a report link for a detailed safety report.

Using site safety balloons

Use this task to view additional information available through a site’s safety icon listed in a

search results page.

Task

1

Hold the cursor over the site’s safety icon. A safety balloon displays a high-level summary

of the site’s safety report.

2

Click a safety report link or the

More info

link in the safety balloon to view details of the

site's safety report.

SiteAdvisor menu protects while browsing

When users browse to a website, a color-coded menu button appears in the top-left corner of

the window. The color of the button corresponds to the site’s safety rating. Placing the cursor

over this button displays a safety balloon that summarizes the safety report for the site, with

a link to the detailed site report page. The menu button next to the icon displays the SiteAdvisor

menu.

Indicates this...

With this color

and symbol...

This button...

The site is safe.

Green, checkmark

There might be some issues with the site.

Yellow, exclamation

point

There might be some serious issues with the site.

Red, x

No rating is available for the site.

Gray, question

mark

A communication error occurred with the SiteAdvisor website that

contains rating information.

Gray, disconnected

cables

Client settings that affect the SiteAdvisor menu button

•

When SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus is disabled, the menu button is gray with a question mark.

•

When event tracking is disabled for specific sites in the Authorize List or in the Event Tracking

policy, the menu button is gray with a question mark while visiting the sites.

•

When a communication error occurs with the SiteAdvisor server, the menu button is gray

with disconnected cables.

•

In Internet Explorer, users can display or hide the menu button by using the

View |

Toolbars | McAfee SiteAdvisor

menu option. This does not affect the functional status

(enabled or disabled) of the SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus client software.

NOTE:

Firefox users cannot hide the menu button while SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus is enabled.

Introducing SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus

SiteAdvisor menu protects while browsing

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McAfee SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus 3.0 Product Guide

Section	Page
Contents	3
Introducing SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus	5
Benefits of using SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus	5
How safety ratings are compiled	6
Safety icons and balloons protect during searches	6
Using site safety balloons	7
SiteAdvisor menu protects while browsing	7
Using the SiteAdvisor menu	8
Safety reports provide details	9
Viewing safety reports	10
Administrators customize policy settings	11
Setting up a Browsing Security Strategy	13
Guidelines for creating a strategy	13
Select the right policy options and features	14
Information that SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus sends	15
Configuring Policies	16
How policies work	16
Types of policy categories	17
Default policy settings	17
Creating and editing policies	19
Apply general options	19
Configuring proxy settings	20
Enabling observe mode	21
Setting the control panel option	21
Block and warn sites by ratings and threat factors	22
Configuring access based on ratings	22
Blocking or warning site access based on ratings	23
Blocking or warning site access based on threat factors	23
Blocking or warning file downloads based on ratings	23
Blocking phishing pages	24
Use Authorize and Prohibit lists for sites	24
How site patterns work	25
How multiple-instance policies work	26
Working with Authorize lists	27
Adding a site to an Authorize list	27
Adding multiple sites to an Authorize list	27
Deleting sites from an Authorize list	28
Editing information in an Authorize list	28
Searching an Authorize list	29
Testing an Authorize list	29
Blocking exploits on authorized sites	30
Blocking or warning file downloads on authorized sites	30
Blocking phishing pages on authorized sites	31
Turning off tracking for visits to authorized sites	31
Setting list precedence	32
Working with Prohibit lists	32
Adding a site to a Prohibit list	32
Adding multiple sites to a Prohibit list	33
Deleting sites from a Prohibit list	33
Editing information in a Prohibit list	34
Searching a Prohibit list	34
Testing a Prohibit list	34
Customize messages for users	35
Creating customized messaging	35
Creating a message for rated sites	35
Creating a message for phishing pages	36
Creating a message for downloads	37
Creating a message for sites on Authorize or Prohibit lists	37
Adding a logo in a message	38
Disable and reenable the software	38
Disabling and re-enabling from the ePO server	38
Disabling and reenabling from the browser	39
Track events for reports	39
Tracking visits to domains and downloads	40
Tracking domain page views and downloads	41
Tracking green site content categories	41
Using Dashboards, Monitors, and Reports	43
Use queries to create reports	43
Creating reports	44
Running a purge task	45
Use dashboards and monitors	45
Creating monitors	46
Reference	47
Frequently Asked Questions	47
Where to find more information	50
Web Filtering for Endpoint and Web Reporter Appendix	51
How web content filtering works	51
Policy additions with web content filtering	51
Report and dashboard additions with web content filtering	52
How Web Reporter works	52
Sending Web Reporter logs	53
Applying the Content Actions policy	53
Working with the Web Reporter	54

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