Monitoring Norton Personal Firewall

View Norton Personal Firewall Logs

To set the statistics displayed in the Detailed Statistics window

1Open Norton Personal Firewall.

2In the Security Center main window, click Statistics.

3In the Statistics window, click Detailed Statistics.

4In the Detailed Statistics window, on the View menu, click Options.

5In the Norton Personal Firewall Statistics Options window, select one or more categories of statistics that you want to display.

6Click OK.

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View Norton Personal Firewall Logs

Norton Personal Firewall records information about Web sites that users have visited, actions that the firewall has taken, and any alerts that have been triggered. The logs include details about some of the activity reported in the Statistics window.

The logs are organized onto 10 tabs.

Content

Blocking

Connections

Firewall

Intrusion Detection

Privacy

Private Information

System

Details about banner ads, images, Java applets, and ActiveX controls blocked by Norton Personal Firewall

A history of all TCP/IP network connections made with this computer, including the date and time of the connection, the address of the computer to which you connected, the service or port number used, the amount of information transferred, and the total time the connection was active

Communication intercepted by the firewall, including rules that were processed, alerts displayed, unused ports blocked, and AutoBlock events

Whether Intrusion Detection is active, attack signatures being monitored, and the number of intrusions blocked

The cookies that have been blocked, including the name of the cookie and the Web site that requested the cookie

A history of all protected private information sent over the Internet

Severe system errors, the current status of IP filtering, if the logged program started as a Windows service, and information about programs that are using too many resources or otherwise operating under less than optimum conditions

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