HP (Hewlett-Packard) Norton Personal Firewall 2003 Printer User Manual


 
Monitoring Norton
Personal Firewall
Norton Personal Firewall maintains records of every ingoing and outgoing
Internet connection and any actions that the program takes to protect your
computer. You should periodically review this information to spot potential
problems.
There are four sources of Norton Personal Firewall information:
When reviewing logged information, check for:
1 Recent attacks in the Status & Settings window
1 Many denied accesses, especially from a single IP address
1 Sequences of port numbers from the same IP address, possibly
indicating a port scan
1 Excessive network activity by unknown programs
Status & Settings
window
Basic information about which protection features are active
Statistics window Recent information about firewall and content-blocking
activities
Detailed statistics
window
Detailed information about network activity and actions that
Norton Personal Firewall has taken
Event Log Internet activities and any actions Norton Personal Firewall
has taken