5.3.4Using the NVIDIA¨ Firewallª

The motherboard supports the NVIDIA¨ Firewallª (NVFirewallª) application that protects your computer from intruders. The NVFirewallª 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¨ Firewallª.

Launching the NVFirewallª summary

After you install the NVFirewallª application from the motherboard support CD, it is automatically activated with a Medium security profile as its default setting. The setup summary of NVFirewallª is displayed in the summary menu.

To launch the NVFirewallª summary menu:

1.Click the NVIDIA¨ Firewallª icon from the Windows¨ taskbar.

NVIDIA¨ Firewallª icon

2.Double-click the icon to display the NVFirewallª 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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