3 - ON/OFF Section

The ON/OFF section provides you with the means to turn off Gatekeeper for up to nearly one hundred hours. It's simple enough; just click on the big, fancy ON/OFF button. When the button says OFF in big, bold, red letters, all of Gatekeeper's protections are disabled. When the button merely says ON, Gatekeeper is operating normally, providing your system all the protection it can.

Turn Gatekeeper off when you're performing relatively brief tasks that Gatekeeper would otherwise interfere with. The most common examples of such tasks are running "installer" programs which install software of some kind on your system, such as PageMaker or TOPS.

Remember, Gatekeeper will automatically turn itself on again after the time limit has expired. (If you're looking at the ON/OFF section at the time, you'll see that the time remaining counter has counted-down to 0:00:00.) If the time limit value is too small (or too large) for your needs, you can change it just by clicking on it and entering the new value the same way you would if you were setting the time in the General control panel or the Alarm Clock desk accessory.

NOTE: Turning off Gatekeeper doesn't turn off Gatekeeper Aid. Even with Gatekeeper off, 'Aid will still remove any known viruses that it detects. The one thing it will not do is remove suspicious resources (known as "Implied Loaders") when it comes across them.