Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2003, User Manual

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Monitoring Norton Personal Firewall
View Norton Personal Firewall Logs
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To set the statistics displayed in the Detailed Statistics window
1 Open Norton Personal Firewall.
2 In the Security Center main window, click Statistics .
3 In the Statistics window, click Detailed Statistics .
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In the Detailed Statistics window, on the View menu, click Options .
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In the Norton Personal Firewall Statistics Options window, select one
or more categories of statistics that you want to display.
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Click OK .
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 Details about banner ads, images, Java applets, and ActiveX
controls blocked by Norton Personal Firewall
Connections 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
Firewall Communication intercepted by the firewall, including rules that
were processed, alerts displayed, unused ports blocked, and
AutoBlock events
Intrusion
Detection Whether Intrusion Detection is active, attack signatures being
monitored, and the number of intrusions blocked
Privacy The cookies that have been blocked, including the name of the
cookie and the Web site that requested the cookie
Private
Information A history of all protected private information sent over the
Internet
System 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