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Portscan
If you activate this option you receive a desktop notification in case a portscan has
been detected by the firewall.
Portscan are not always malicious, but can be a sign of a possible attack on your
system.
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Flooding
If you activate this option you receive a desktop notification in case a flooding attack
has been detected by the firewall. Flooding attacks can overflow your network with
mounds of data and paralyze your network.
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Applications blocked
In case an application should try to build up an external connection which you have
not allowed in the firewall or which is not privileged, the connection is blocked by the
Avira firewall and you receive a desktop notification. This notification informs you
about the application and why it has been blocked.
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IP blocked
If this options is activated you receive a desktop notification in case the firewall has
refused the data traffic from a certain IP address.
We recommend you to deactivate
this option as there are a lot of undesired IP address requests in the Internet. There-
fore you would receive lots of desktop notifications.
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