McAfee Firewall
Changing a program’s allowed state
McAfee Firewall monitors Internet traffic to see which programs are communicating. Depending on your settings, it will allow, block, or filter a program's attempt to communicate.
If you choose to “Allow all” programs to communicate through your firewall, then all programs installed in your computer can communicate.
To view and configure the current list of trusted programs
1From the Task list, select Control Internet programs.
2Select the program whose filtering settings you wish to configure (or click Browse to add a program to the list).
3Select one of the following options:
MFilter this program’s access to the Internet.
MAllow this program to have full unfiltered access to the Internet.
MBlock this program from accessing the Internet.
4To add a program to the list, click Add and browse to select the program you want to add. To remove a program from the list, select the program you want to remove and click Remove.
5Click Apply.
How to customize filtering rules for a specific program
For all programs designated as “filter,” McAfee Firewall provides power users with the flexibility to create a set of custom filtering rules for each filtered program.
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The Customize button becomes accessible if and only if you select the Filter this program’s access to the Internet option.
To create a custom filtering rule
1From the Control Internet Programs screen, select the program for which you want to create a custom filtering rule.
2Select the Filter this program’s access to the Internet radio button.
3Click Customize.
If the program currently maintains a default set of rules created by McAfee Firewall, then the Customize filtering rules dialog displays. If the program does not maintain a default set of rules, then the What do you want this filtering rule to do? dialog displays.
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