
2. Click the Settings button on the upper toolbar.
3. In the Settings Overview window, select Privacy Control.
4. In the Privacy Control Settings window, select the Chat Encryption tab.
5. Click the switch to turn on or off instant messaging encryption. By default,
encryption is enabled.
18.3. Data protection
Data protection prevents sensitive data leaks when you are online.
Consider a simple example: you have created a data protection rule that protects
your credit card number. If a spyware software somehow manages to install on your
computer, it cannot send your credit card number via e-mail, instant messages or
web pages. Moreover, your children cannot use it to buy online or reveal it to people
they met on the Internet.
18.3.1. About data protection
Whether it is your e-mail or your credit card number, when they fall into the wrong
hands such information may cause you damage: you may find yourself drowning
in spam messages or you might be surprised to access an emptied account.
Based on the rules you create, Data Protection scans the web, e-mail and instant
messaging traffic leaving your computer for specific character strings (for example,
your credit card number). If there is a match, the respective web page, e-mail or
instant message is blocked.
You can create rules to protect any piece of information you might consider personal
or confidential, from your phone number or e-mail address to your bank account
information. Multiuser support is provided so that users logging on to different
Windows user accounts can configure and use their own rules. If your Windows
account is an administrator account, the rules you create can be configured to also
apply when other users of the computer are logged on to their Windows user
accounts.
18.3.2. Configuring data protection
If you want to use data protection, follow these steps:
1. Open the Bitdefender window.
2. Click the Settings button on the upper toolbar.
3. In the Settings Overview window, select Privacy Control.
4. In the Privacy Control Settings window, select the Data Protection tab.
5. Make sure data protection is enabled.
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