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FRITZ!DSL Protect
7.3
FRITZ!DSL Protect
FRITZ!DSL Protect protects your computer from unwanted
Internet connections, supplementing the firewall functions
of your FRITZ!Box. With FRITZ!DSL Protect you can check all
Internet connections that are established or accepted by lo-
cal programs on your computer. You can permit or prohibit
individual programs from accepting connections. If an un-
known program attempts to establish an Internet connec-
tion, you will be asked whether you wish to allow such a
connection.
An overview shows the programs already set up in
FRITZ!DSL Protect along with their access rights. A Journal
grants you an overview of all successful and rejected at-
tempts to access the Internet.
One of the most convenient functions offered by FRITZ!DSL
Protect works in combination with the UPnP capability of
the FRITZ!Box. If enable the option “Allow changes to secu-
rity settings over UPnP” in the FRITZBox, FRITZ!DSL Protect
can foward ports for incoming connections on the
FRITZ!Box whenever they are needed by programs. For this
capability you must activate the “Use port forwarding“ op-
tion in the “Settings” of FRITZ!DSL Protect. In this manner
you can participate in online activities like gaming without
having to reconfigure the FRITZ!Box firewall functions man-
ually.
7.4
FRITZ!Box
Click the “FRITZ!Box” button to open the user interface of
FRITZ!Box in your web browser. In the FRITZ!Box user inter-
face you can set up a shared Internet access for all connect-
ed computers and change the FRITZ!Box settings.
7.5
Update
New firmware updates for FRITZ!Box are provided by AVM at
regular intervals, free of charge. The updates can add new
functions to your FRITZ!Box.
Click the “Update” button to check whether there is a new
update available for the FRITZ!Box firmware.
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