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:
Status & Settings window
Statistics window
Detailed statistics window
Event Log
Basic information about which protection features are active
Recent information about firewall and
Detailed information about network activity and actions that Norton Personal Firewall has taken
Internet activities and any actions Norton Personal Firewall has taken
When reviewing logged information, check for:
1Recent attacks in the Status & Settings window
1Many denied accesses, especially from a single IP address
1Sequences of port numbers from the same IP address, possibly indicating a port scan
1Excessive network activity by unknown programs
