5.4.4 Usi ng the NVI DI A® Fi rewall ™

The motherboard supports the NVIDIA® Firewall™ (NVFirewall™) application that protects your computer from intruders. The NVFirewall™ is classified as a personal firewall or desktop firewall that works at the device level

to protect your system from malicious computer code by controlling the connections to and from your computer and alerting you for attempted intrusions. The following sections describe how to use the NVIDIA® Firewall™.

Launchi ng the NVFi rewall ™ summary

After you install the NVFirewall™ application from the motherboard support CD, it is automatically activated with a Medium security profile. The setup summary of NVFirewall™ is displayed in the summary menu.

To launch the NVFirewall™ summary menu:

1.Click the NVIDIA® Firewall™ icon from the Windows® taskbar.

NVI DI A® Fi rewall ™ i con

2.Double-click the icon to display the NVFirewall™ Summary menu.

Click to

select firewall profile

Click to

view profile details

Click

to

view the firewall

log

Click

to

view the firewall

stats

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