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Contents
User’s Guide
Norton Personal Firewall User’s Guide
Symantec License and Warranty
Disclaimer of Damages
Contents
Chapter Norton Personal Firewall basics
Chapter Controlling access to protected computers
Chapter Protecting your privacy
Appendix Troubleshooting Norton Personal Firewall
Contents
To block and investigate an attack
Responding to emergencies
If you think your computer is under attack
Recover from an emergency
Action Description
Prevent future problems
Prevent future problems
About Norton Personal Firewall
What’s new in Norton Personal Firewall
Norton Personal Firewall features
About Norton Personal Firewall
Norton Personal Firewall features include
Installing Norton Personal Firewall
System requirements
Supported email clients
Requirements
Supported instant messenger clients
Before installation
If you’re using Windows XP
Prepare your computer
To install Norton Personal Firewall
Install Norton Personal Firewall
To disable the Windows XP firewall
Install Norton Personal Firewall
Click Next
To register your software
Register your software
If the opening screen does not appear
Register your software
Register your software
Restart your computer
After installation
Set up Home Networking
Use the Security Assistant
Set up Program Control
To set up Home Networking
To set up Program Control
Set up Privacy Control
Set up Password Protection
To set up Privacy Control
To open Norton Personal Firewall from Norton SystemWorks
If you have Norton SystemWorks installed
To protect Norton Personal Firewall options with a password
To open Norton SystemWorks from Norton Personal Firewall
To uninstall LiveReg and LiveUpdate
If you need to uninstall Norton Personal Firewall
To uninstall Norton Personal Firewall
Norton Personal Firewall basics
Access Norton Personal Firewall
To access Norton Personal Firewall
Access Norton Personal Firewall from the system tray
To use the Norton Personal Firewall system tray menu
Work with Norton Personal Firewall
Access Norton Personal Firewall protection features
To change settings for individual features
To view the Security Center
Use the Security Monitor
To view the Security Monitor
Learn more with the Alert Assistant
Respond to Norton Personal Firewall alerts
Select a task with the Security Monitor
To use the Alert Assistant
Adjust the Alerting Level
To adjust the Alerting Level
Use Alert Tracker
To view or hide Alert Tracker
To move Alert Tracker
Check your computer’s vulnerability to attack
To review recent Alert Tracker messages
To hide Alert Tracker from the system tray menu
To trace a connection attempt from Statistics
Identify the source of communications
To get more information about an at-risk area
To trace a connection attempt from the Log Viewer
Stop Internet communication with Block Traffic
About General options
About LiveUpdate options
Customize Norton Personal Firewall
About Firewall options
About Email options
Password-protect options
About Web Content options
To reset your Norton Personal Firewall options password
Temporarily disable Norton Personal Firewall
Reset options password
To temporarily disable Norton Personal Firewall
For more information
To disable a protection feature
To access Help
Look up glossary terms Use online Help
Window and dialog box Help
To access window or dialog box Help
Readme file and Release Notes
To read the Readme file
To install Adobe Acrobat Reader
To read the Release Notes
Explore online tutorials
To access the Symantec Web site in your browser
About Norton Personal Firewall on the Web
To read the User’s Guide from your hard disk
Subscribe to the Symantec Security Response newsletter
To subscribe to the Symantec Security Response newsletter
Keeping current with LiveUpdate
About program updates
About protection updates
About your subscription
Request an update alert
When you should update
If you run LiveUpdate on an internal network
To request an update alert
Set LiveUpdate to Interactive or Express mode
If you can’t use LiveUpdate
Obtain updates using LiveUpdate
To obtain updates from the Symantec Web site
To turn off Express mode
Turn off Express mode
To set LiveUpdate to Interactive or Express mode
Notify me
To disable Automatic LiveUpdate
Run LiveUpdate automatically
Control how people use your computer
Connect to a network
Organize computers into network zones
Enable file and printer sharing
To enable file and printer sharing
To open the Home Network Wizard from the Security Center
To open the Home Network Wizard from the Security Monitor
To remove computers from zones
Identify computers to Norton Personal Firewall
To manually add computers to zones
Specify an individual computer
To find an IP address with Ipconfig
Find a computer’s IP address
To find an IP address with Winipcfg
Specify a range of computers
Specify computers using a network address
To specify computers using a network address
If you use Dhcp
If you access the Internet via a cable or DSL router
Control how users access the Internet
Control how outside users access your network
If multiple computers share a single Internet connection
If you run a Virtual Private Network
PGP
Guarding against intrusion attempts
Norton Personal Firewall monitors communications
Intrusion Detection analyzes communications
Visual Tracking locates attackers
To change the Security Level slider
Customize firewall protection
Change the Security Level slider
Change individual security settings
To change individual security settings
Click Custom Level
Customize firewall rules
Reset security settings to defaults
To reset security settings to defaults
How firewall rules are processed
Enable Automatic Program Control
Create new firewall rules
Scan for Internet-enabled programs
To enable Automatic Program Control
Manually add a program to Program Control
To add a program to Program Control
Change Program Control settings
To change Program Control settings
To add a Trojan Horse Rule
Manually add a firewall rule
To add a General Rule
To write a firewall rule
Write a firewall rule
To add a Program Rule
TCP UDP
Change an existing firewall rule
Select the ports the rule should monitor. Your options are
Remove a firewall rule
Temporarily disable a firewall rule
Change the order of firewall rules
Exclude specific network activity from being monitored
Reset firewall rules to the default settings
Customize Intrusion Detection
To remove a firewall rule
To include attack signatures
Unblock computers
Enable or disable AutoBlock
To enable or disable AutoBlock
To unblock computers currently blocked by AutoBlock
To exclude specific computers from AutoBlock
Exclude computers from AutoBlock
Restrict a blocked computer
To restrict a blocked computer
Protecting your privacy
Identify private information to protect
To add private information
Privacy Control and SSL
Add private information
Set the Privacy Level
Customize Privacy Control
Modify or remove private information
To modify or remove private information
To change the Private Information setting
Adjust individual Privacy Control settings
Change the Private Information setting
To set the Privacy Level
Change the Cookie Blocking setting
To change the Cookie Blocking setting
To enable or disable Browser Privacy
Enable or disable Browser Privacy
Disable or enable secure Web connections
How Ad Blocking works
Blocking by dimensions
Blocking Internet advertisements
Blocking by location
Enable or disable Ad Blocking
To enable or disable Ad Blocking
Enable or disable Popup Window Blocking
To enable or disable Popup Window Blocking
Use the Ad Trashcan
Enable or disable Flash blocking
To enable or disable Flash blocking
To use the Ad Trashcan
Use text strings to identify ads to block or permit
Click Open the Ad Trashcan. The Ad Trashcan window appears
To add an Ad Blocking string
How to identify Ad Blocking strings
Add an Ad Blocking string
Modify or remove an Ad Blocking string
To modify or remove an Ad Blocking string
Use text strings to identify ads to block or permit
Monitoring Norton Personal Firewall
View the Statistics window
View the Status & Settings window
To view the Status & Settings window
To view the Statistics window
Review detailed statistics
Reset information in the Statistics window
To reset information in the Statistics window
To review detailed statistics
Reset detailed statistics counters
To reset counters
View Norton Personal Firewall Logs
View the logs
To view the logs
Refresh the logs
Clear the logs
Change the size of the logs
To change the size of a log
Troubleshooting Norton Personal Firewall
To explore the Symantec service and support Web site
To search the Symantec service and support Web site
Troubleshoot Norton Personal Firewall problems
What is wrong with this Web site?
Why can’t I post information online?
Why did an email message I sent never arrive?
Why can’t I connect to the Internet via my cable modem?
To make your NetBIOS name visible
How can a Web site get my browser information?
To allow ISP port scans
Troubleshoot Norton Personal Firewall problems
About the Internet
How information is transmitted over the Internet
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About Icmp
How Web information is located on the Internet
About UDP
About Igmp
Requesting a
Understanding URLs
How ports identify programs on servers
How ports identify programs on servers
How computers are identified on the Internet
Well-known ports
124 About the Internet
Process of a hacker attack
Understanding Internet risks
Risks from hackers
Information gathering
Initial access
Privilege escalation
Risks from active content
Covering tracks
Risks to your privacy
Risks from inappropriate content and activities
Restricting access to programs
Blocking site and newsgroup categories
Good cookies
Understanding cookies
Blocking cookies
Bad cookies
Risks from Trojan horses and viruses
Tracking Internet use
Likelihood of being attacked
Glossary
Domain Download
IP Internet Protocol
IP address Internet Protocol address
Network address Operating system
Glossary
Web Web site World Wide Web WWW
Glossary
Service and support solutions
Customer service
Support for old and dis versions
Technical support
Subscription policy
Worldwide service and support
Service and support offices
Service and support solutions
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